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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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DRUID n. 2 definitions
order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countrie…
DRUIDESS n.
A female Druid; a prophetess.
DRUIDIC; DRUIDICAL a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids. Druidical circles. See under Circle.
DRUIDISH a.
Druidic.
DRUIDISM n.
The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.
CIRQUE n.
A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.
MISTLETOE n.
found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also misletoe, misseltoe, and mistleto.] Lindley. Loudon.
SARSEN n.
sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone. [Eng.]
STONEHENGE n.
tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.