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After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident. Spectator.

to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator.

. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator.

here is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. Spectator.

A spectator; a looker-on. [Obs.] Shak.

y get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants. Spectator.

ers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

n edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

Consequently; by consequence. He blushes; therefore he is guilty. Spectator.

to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. London Spectator.

Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis. Spectator. I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

thing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] Don't we all tub in England London Spectator.

A whirl; a vortex. Spectator.

dow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra.

Want of discernment. [R.] Spectator.

orted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." Spectator.

oughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a child." Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.

deputies . . . refusing to validate at once the election of an official candidate. London Spectator.

as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land. The horse vanished . . . out of sight. Chaucer. Go; vanish into air; away! Shak. The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning. Sir W. Scott. Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among…

vernment intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator.