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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



214 words match “HAWTHORN”

INSTITUTION n.
most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.
INTENSE a.
; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense seclusion of the forest. Hawthorne.
INTERVOLUTION n.
tate of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.
INTUITION n.
ght or apprehension. Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. Hawthorne.
INVEIGH v.
xcept court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.
INVEST v.
urround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.
INVESTMENT n.
ket might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.
INVETERATELY adv.
In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.
LADYLIKE a.
ll-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.
LIFEMATE n.
Companion for life. Hawthorne.
LIGAMENT n.
Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.
LIGHT a.
oo light. Shak. Specimens of New England humor laboriously light and lamentably mirthful. Hawthorne.
LIGHTSOME a.
Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress. Hawthorne.
LUGUBRIOUS a.
brious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
MAINLAND n.
eninsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.
MALEFACTRESS n.
A female malefactor. Hawthorne.
MALIGNANT a.
ome malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.
MARGINED a.
Having a margin. Hawthorne.
MAY n. 2 definitions
The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.
MAYBLOOM n.
The hawthorn.
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