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The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

his wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

ough examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

n in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

A pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

The possession or exercise of authority. Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion. Locke.

ntly consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth.

to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

ction of further evidence argument. If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it. Sir M. Hale.

Accompanying; conjoined; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke.

it of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.

ntion of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study. In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. Milton. Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. Locke.

ral character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.