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otify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

Having no beacon.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

Money. [Cant] Beaconsfield.

vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.

Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.

cedure; a circumlocution. He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. Beaconsfield.

head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. W…

re. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield.

el, . . . which his master had given him. W. Irving. A few old battered crones of office. Beaconsfield.

f an author crop out. -- To crop up, to sprout; to spring up. "Cares crop up in villas." Beaconsfield.

nd repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. All now depends upon a good cry. Beaconsfield.

Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. "Damascened armor." Beaconsfield. "Cast and damascened steel." Ure.

To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] Beaconsfield.

One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.

ze. Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.

as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.