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Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

mmon fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum,…

To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]

Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]

Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

person or an act. Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles. Dryden.

Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [R.] Chillingworth.

itome. [Obs.] Though not a catalogue of fundamentals, yet . . . a comprehension of them. Chillingworth.

To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips.

l they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

lly heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

uted suspicion where none could have been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

mpany; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.