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A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or a kind of sweetened biscuit.

Same as Brusque.

Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

Rising; ascending. Ruskin.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. [R.] Ruskin.

One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. [R.] Ruskin.

Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

cution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. The first quality of execution is truth. Ruskin.

phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.

The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.

The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness. Ruskin.

The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.

Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin.