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Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.

isturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits." Coleridge.

ed; dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

and the way of salvation; theology. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge. , casuistry.

To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. Coleridge.

n; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. We drifted o'er the harbor bar. Coleridge.

dulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery. Ne'er have I duped him with base counterfeits. Coleridge.

; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. "Elfish light." Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.

fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

icle; as, an encysted tumor. The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. Coleridge.

of living lose. Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge.

declare, as a truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge.

ne who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

asis, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

Equally radical. [R.] Coleridge.

An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge.

ersial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.

Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. [R.] Coleridge.

inal or fundamental signification. [R.] Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word. Coleridge.