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May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. Landor.

f, without needing external aid; self-sufficient. -- Self`-suf*fi"cing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.

ntial. Wordsworth was solemnizzed and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow. J. C. Shairp. Every Israelite . . . arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem . . . and prayed. L. Wallace.

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman.

nions. Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities. J. C. Shairp.

ell as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body. Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. Chaucer.

rass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.

To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land. Berkley.

A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.

, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation. -- Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.

p; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.

k occasion to ventilate one of those starling, but not very profound, paradoxes. J. C. Shairp.

Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang] Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. Tusser.

d, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic] "Wilding flowers." Tennyson. The ground squirrel gayly chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by. Bryant.

to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. -- Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. -- Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a. -- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wo…