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The hawthorn.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

e." Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused us mightily. Hawthorne.

"Giants of mighty bone." Milton. Mighty was their fuss about little matters. Hawthorne.

o make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

changeable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.

ry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

rom moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

orbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

n, exercise, or introduction into service. The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

nown; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

rer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.

kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

racterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. It was well worth one's while. Hawthorne. Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. G. Eliot.

gns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.

ehavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

trating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne.