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Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. "The enervating magic of place." Hawthorne. Men in great place are thrice servants. Bacon. I know my place as I would they should do theirs. Shak.

The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. Hawthorne.

energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.

prize fight; the system and practice of prize fighting. -- To make prize of, to capture. Hawthorne.

ls were strictly excluded. Macaulay. He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick. Evelyn.

A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.

rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

ton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

ave a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.

long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.

Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. Hawthorne.

her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

iticism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.