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Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

iger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna…

Poetic] With morning dews impearled. Mrs. Browning. The dews of the morning impearl every thorn. R. Digby.

over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope.

great incommodity to the body. Jer. Taylor. Buried him under a bulk of incommodities. Hawthorne.

r. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

d by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts. The insidious whisper of the bad angel. Hawthorne. Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.

st delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.

trong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense seclusion of the forest. Hawthorne.

terwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

e of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.

or apprehension. Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. Hawthorne.

pt court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.

ound, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.

might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

usalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa). -- Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges. -- The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.