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k with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

e crutch, and fight with the other. Shak. Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. H. Smith.

in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them. Acts xix. 19.

by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.

page, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.

, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith. This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.

r postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

rring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty. I had them a dead bargain. Goldsmith.

fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.

To become clear, pure, or free. Goldsmith.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

ected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

o naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

al sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.