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To unroof. [R.] Carlyle.

h to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Capable of being done. Carlyle.

To dye again or twice over. To double-dye their robes in scarlet. J. Webster.

Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.

One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

To doubt. [R.] If he . . . were to loiter dubitating, and not come. Carlyle.

The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.

ervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

To blossom forth. Carlyle.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.

d modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.

compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system. Carlyle.