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Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

fferent; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. Shak.

rian chronicle, a most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.

A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.

adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. Macaulay.

A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.] This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities. Milton.

used figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of cities." " Albion, queen of isles." Cowper.

at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, débris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, t\'c5 255-261.

ed up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.

Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle. Milton.

Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer. This may enable us to understand how seductive is the influence of example. Sir W. Hamilton.

Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.

A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30.

ence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush. Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle. Shak.

A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]

y; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion, liberty, and property. Macaulay. In consequence of their greater command of specious expression. J. Morley.