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Sentinel. [Obs.] Sackville.

Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.

as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. "Charge for the guns!" he said. Tennyson.

Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. Glanvill.

dentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

A small village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott Sitting at the clachon alehouse. R. L. Stevenson.

Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

To join together. [Obs.] Glanvill.

In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

Joint efficiency; coöperation. Glanvill.

and fore part of the cap to a great height. Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville.

Of or pertaining to comparison. "The comparative faculty." Granvill.

rly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.] That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

pactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. Glanvill.

eral tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Shak. As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self- knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience i…

situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville (Trans. ).