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A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.

Acquired. [Obs.] Burton.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

quaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

ually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

ndirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

crites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

Thorough or downright, in a good sense. [Obs.] An arrant honest woman. Burton.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. [Eng.] Burton.

Capable of culti [Obs.] Burton.

To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment. Leslie Stephen.

g about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.