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The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.

Ebony. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Dull; stupid. [Obs.]

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

See Chebacco.

A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

See Phoebe.

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold. [Ireland]

here. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

orance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dr…

rned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.

two especially commend themselves to our contemplation. Sir M. Hale. I commend unto you Phebe our sister. Rom. xvi. 1.

n life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope. Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,

he wood itself. D. C. Eaton. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation…

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.

Copper sulphide, used to color glass. Hebert.