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of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. De Quincey.

usiness in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.

nds, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to fiv…

ade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

A quince.

ke. Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. De Quincey.

Tending to advance or promote; contributive. "Ministerial to intellectual culture." De Quincey. The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial be…

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

Hatred of God. De Quincey.

Possessing but one capacity or power. "Monodynamic men." De Quincey.

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company. De Quincey.

by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

ce produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

f Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.

A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.