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The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart. Goldsmith.

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo." Goldsmith.

The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. Crabb.

c, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen. Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. Goldsmith.

eart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

A wife; -- not now in approved usage. Goldsmith.

es; -- probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

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

rd in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Goldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. F. W. Robertson.

into captivity. -- To lead the way, to show the way by going in front; to act as guide. Goldsmith.

st principally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. Goldsmith.

learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words of learned length and thundering sound. Goldsmith. The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. -- Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n. Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they. Swift.

To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick. [Written also lu.] Goldsmith.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

t; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.

h title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.