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It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

ndividuals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. Coleridge.

ity or fear. She folded her arms across her chest, And crouched her head upon her breast. Colerige.

That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time. Coleridge. Cyclic chorus, the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan…

sed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell, a stro…

t or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

Contempt. [R.] Coleridge.

racter; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

ly; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.

e's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.

Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

A disjunctive proposition. Coleridge.

necting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.