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Is not. See Nis. Chaucer. Spenser.

A rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs.

Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.

Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.

Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era. Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.

n avenging deity; one of the Furies; sometimes, conscience personified. [Written also Erinnys.]

See Conys.

The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

or; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time. "I will abide the coming of my lord." Tennyson.

chful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

ous. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

ize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

nt arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

d, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.