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been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove. Spectator.

Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope.

ook for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings. Spectator.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

ndary. I threw open the door of my chamber, and found the family standing on the outside. Spectator.

Excessively neat. Spectator.

o exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. Locke.

dorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. Ladies who patched both sides of their faces. Spectator.

nsparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another.

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. He . . . did not care a pin for her. Spectator.

To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once."Dulcissa plumps into a chair." Spectator.

pish; -- used in an ill sense. The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. Spectator.

. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.

; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

oon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

ryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. Swift.

ter of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.

he same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. Spectator.

leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. Spectator.