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f the voice. Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the hearts of the ignorant. Spectator. Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or of pain. Byron.

The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for one another's reputation. Spectator.

A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]

The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

nesty, want anything. Beau. & Fl. Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton. The unhappy never want enemies. Richardson.

t; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character. Spectator.

his leman. Chaucer. It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches. Spectator.

That which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer. "Sips, drams, and whets." Spectator. Whet slate (Min.), a variety of slate used for sharpening cutting instruments; novaculite; -- called also whetstone slate, and oilstone.

A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt. Spectator.

To loiter. [R.] Spectator.

lton. The countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . and by that means lost his whistle. Spectator. They fear his whistle, and forsake the seas. Dryden.

Young. [Obs.] Spectator.

That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star. Milton.