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Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

armers or grangers; -- specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. [U. S.].

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like from the electric blow of the gymnotus. De Quincey.

on; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution. The gyrations of an ascending balloon. De Quincey. If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire. Sir I. Newton.

or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.

tery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.

In a heliacal manner. De Quincey.

a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv. Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. De Quincey.

ristling points; bristled; bristling. Rough and horrent with figures in strong relief. De Quincey. With bright emblazonry and horrent arms. Milton.

irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

n or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.

Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.

That which indemnifies. No reward with the name of an indemnification. De Quincey.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.

Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.

ed; as, an insulated house or column. The special and insulated situation of the Jews. De Quincey.

w; to restore; to perfect. "That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious empire." De Quincey. Two distinct substances, the soul and body, go to compound and integrate the man. South.