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An apple fit to stew or coddle.

f arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.

ombination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition. Shak. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle.

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering tho…

bers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

r pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.

Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.

Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.

A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.

ions daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.

uth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of. O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree…

A goddess. [Obs.] Croft.

A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. Milton. The Deity, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. Addison.

Behavior; carrige; demeanor; deportment. [Obs.] "Goddesslike deport." Milton.

; fem. of Deva. A goddess.