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the "Romaunt of the Rose." O, hearken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt. Mrs. Browning.

shed; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.

. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning.

t as great as their ignorance. Sir W. Temple. A master were lauded and scolists shent. R. Browning.

The unkempt and ragged part of the community. [Colloq. or Slang.] R. Browning.

Brightly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To blame, reproach, or revile; to degrade, disgrace, or put to shame. [Archaic] R. Browning. The famous name of knighthood foully shend. Spenser. She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars. Spenser.

A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer. R. Browning. About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.

f signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.

e. A native slip to us from foreign seeds. Shak. The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride. R. Browning.

Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic. Mrs. Browning.

ton. We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, -For that'a his speciality. Mrs. Browning. Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities -- if I may use that strong remark -- of prejudice. Dickens.

minance. Shak. Though the stars were suns, and overburned Their spheric limitations. Mrs. Browning. Spherical angle, Spherical coördinate, Spherical excess, etc. See under Angle, Coordinate, etc. -- Spherical geometry, that branch of geometry which treats of spherical magnitudes; the doctrine of the sphere, especially…

ic] "With drunken spilth of wine." Shak. Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

A spot; a stain; a daub. R. Browning.

s not the spontaneities Of all his individual, personal life With formal universals. Mrs. Browning.

Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret." R. Browning. The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat. Grew.

pl. of Staff. "Banners, scarves and staves." R. Browning. Also (stavz),

hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring. Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek. Mrs. Browning. The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room, before his stertorous breathing lulls. Dickens.

To stamp with the foot. [Colloq.] "In gallant procession, the priests mean to stomp." R. Browning.