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Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.

tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. Quain.

nies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly. "The old papistic worship." T. Warton. -- Pa*pis"tic*al*ly, adv.

Resemblance; correspondence; similarity. A close parallelism of thought and incident. T. Warton.

A paraphraser. T. Warton.

One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.

Having the character of parody. Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical. T. Warton.

A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.

e, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.

The wart hog.

memory. In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind. Stewart.

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. T. Warton.

rties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments. "Pneumatical discoveries." Stewart.

The principles and rules of the art of poetry. J. Warton.

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

An alehouse. T. Warton.

ing practicable; practicableness; feasibility. "The practicability of such a project." Stewart.

ained as a white crystalline substance; -- probably so called from the resemblance of the wartlike crystals to the mammillæ on the surface of prehnite.

The office or dignity of a pretor. J. Warton

To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart. "This vile purpose to prevent." Shak. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. Milton.