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olute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

aving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

y expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

the wings of doubtful success. Howell. His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering. I. Watts.

ent; an adversary; an ill- wisher; as, a foe to religion. A foe to received doctrines. I. Watts

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. I. Watts.

t reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years. I. Watts.

One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician. I. Watts.

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

gh. Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. I Watts.

of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. That day of grace fleets fast away. I. Watts. -- Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace ar…

Not roasted; half raw. [R.] We say the meat is green when half roasted. L. Watts.

m, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or smeering smile. I.Watts. He showed twenty teeth at a grin. Addison.

The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

he peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin. Watts.

Fearful; frightful. [Obs.] I. Watts.

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. Where angels first should practice hymns, and string Their tuneful harps. Dryden. Hymn book, a book containing a collection of hymns, as for use in churches;…

nic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep. De Watteville.

he body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria. De Watteville.