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a quince tree or shrub. Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. -- Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (C…

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

eeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

o. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey.

h sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

rs adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

cy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

The state of being aërial; [R.] De Quincey.

scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

[Slang] Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. The Almighty, the omnipotent God. Rev. i. 8.

he human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

stant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its i…

ia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis." The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey.

ter the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

The unfolding or dénouement. [R.] De Quincey.

ance or proportion; -- often followed by to. Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

ng built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.