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; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. Glanvill. "T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Byron.

Characterized by copses. "Copsy villages." "Copsy banks." J. Dyer.

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.

He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

Grossness. [Obs.] Glanvill.

creant, n. King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath Fluellen.He is a craven and a villain else. Shak.

A shrub (Covillea mexicana) found in desert regions from Colorado to California and southward through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.

arities of an author crop out. -- To crop up, to sprout; to spring up. "Cares crop up in villas." Beaconsfield.

; perverse. "A cross fortune." Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. Dryden.…

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

A mongrel or inferior dog. They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do. Shak.

ror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

ing billows." Dryden. Then round her slender waist he curled. Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

fe, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. Emerson.

Evincing blaxk or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. Left him at large to his own dark designs. Milton.

danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece. Glanvill.