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Moderalely acrid or harsh.

Moderalely acute.

Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

untains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds. Sir W. Raleigh.

trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Confédération Générale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action w…

o preaches without regular ordination. The teachers in all the churches assembled. Sir W. Raleigh.

m or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time. [R.] "Termless joys." Sir W. Raleigh.

al. God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene. Sir W. Raleigh. Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor. O. Eng. Oath of Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone. Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis o…

Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

bleness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.

ze. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir T. Raleigh. Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus). -- Twig girdler. (Zoöl.) See Girdler, 3. -- Twig rush (Bot…

To make uncertain. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal. Sir W. Raleigh.

To sell; to vend. [Obs.] Therefore did those nations vent such spice. Sir W. Raleigh.

To turn round. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

nd a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir W. Raleigh.

ch Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God. Sir W. Raleigh.

Worn-out; old; worthless. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh. -- Worm"-eat`en*ness, n. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh.

[ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow. Sir W. Raleigh.