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ace of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

h and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they…

A British ray; the thornback.

ify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

ure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.] All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.

hly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

s brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

fety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

e which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.

had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

rly youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

ents or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition." Cawthorn.

. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

To brutify; to imbrute. All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.

hen clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

r gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

ice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.