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Unlucky. R. Browning.

or form amiss; to spoil in making. "Limping possibilities of mismade human nature." Mrs. Browning.

ished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

Or whet you think of Mister Some-one's book, Or Mister Other's marriage or decease. Mrs. Browning.

A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.

maginary; fanciful. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv. The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. Macaulay.

The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense. Mrs. Browning.

hat od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. Mrs. Browning.

Scented. [R.] R. Browning.

re thrust, or lured to fall. Sudden in the sun An oubliette winks. Where is he Gone. Mrs. Browning.

To surpass in daring; to overcome by courage; to brave. Shak. R. Browning.

ng, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.

To surpass; to excel. [R.] R. Browning.

Preponderant weight; a counterbalance. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. Mrs. Browning.

ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.

The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. Mrs. Browning.

eeds be always so. Pope. That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind. Mrs. Browning.

A kind of lyre used by the Greeks. Mrs. Browning.

Anything plausible or specious. R. Browning.