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DICTIONARY.

276 Forage, to search for provisions. Fossil, what is dug out of the earth.

Fretted, adorned with raised work.

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Fruition, enjoyment.
Function, office or duty.
Fuse, to melt, (applied to me-
tals or any hard body.)
Ganges, a large river in India.
Garniture, ornament.
Gaunt, lean.

Genial, what helps to produce.
Genus, kind or sort.

Germ, a sprout or shoot of a plant.

Gorgeous, showy or splendid. Granary, a storehouse for corn. Greenland, a country in the northern parts of the globe, on whose coasts whales are killed. Grotto, a cave, either natural or artificial. Group, assemblage of persons or things.

Gully, a large deep gutter formed by a torrent of water. Guinea, a country in Africa. Gyration, a round about or whirling motion. Halcyon, peaceful. Hallelujah, a song of thanksgiving.

Halo, a red circle round the sun

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Iberia, a name given to Spain. Illapse, a casual coming or attack.

Illusion, false show or deception.
Importune, to ask earnestly.
Impregnable, what cannot be ta-
ken.

Impregnate, to fill.
Incantation, enchantment.
Inclement, harsh or severe.
India, a country in Asia.
Indication, that which tells or
shows what any thing is.
Ineffable, what cannot be utter.
ed or described.

Infatuation, loss of reason.
Inflate, to swell with wind.
Infracted, broken.
Insatiable, what cannot be satis-
Inhale, to draw in.

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Lapse, gradual flow or fall.
Laud, to praise.

Lava, the matter that runs out of a volcano.

Legate, a person deputed to

speak or act for another. Lichen, a particular kind of vegetable or plant. Lobe, a distinct part commonly applied to the lungs, or to any thing resembling them. Locke, the name of a great English philosopher and author. Lystra, a town of Lycaonia, in Asia.

Maccabees, those Jews who

fought and struggled for the Law against their Heathen oppressors.

Madding, grovelling, Mahomet, a religious impostor in Arabia. Malleable, capable of being spread by beating. Mantle, to cover, to spread or expand luxuriantly. Marathon, a plain near Athens, where a small army of the Greeks defeated a prodigious army of Persians. Marine, belonging to the sea. Marmarides, a people in Africa who had the power of preventing the noxious effects of the poison of serpents. Mart, a place of public traffic. Mass, the service of the Church of Rome.

Mature, ripe, far advanced. Mauritius, an island in the In

dian Ocean. Mausoleum, a tomb, a place for the dead.

Maze, a place of windings. Mediate, in the middle, be

tween.

Mediterranean, a sea between
Africa and Europe.
Mellow, to ripen or make soft.
Membrane, a thin web of seve-

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ral sorts of fibres interwoven, for wrapping up something. Mercenary, selfish, seeking for reward.

Meridian, at the highest point.
Mexico, a country in North
America.

Mien, look or aspect.
Migration, change of place.
Miniature, a representation of
any thing in a small size.
Minstrelsy, music.
Mollusca, a class of animals..
Molten, melted.

Monastery, a house of religious retirement, called also a con

vent.

Moralist, one that teaches the moral duties.

Morose, peevish, fretful.
Motley, of various aspects.
Mottled, spotted.

Mummy, an embalmed corpse.
Myriad, a vast number.
Mystic, sacredly obscure.

Nautical, belonging to ships. Nectary, that part of a flower

which contains the sweet juice. Newfoundland, an island of North America.

Nightshade, a poisonous plant. Noxious, hurtful or injurious. Nurture, education or instruction.

Oblique, not perpendicular.! Omniscient, that knows all things.

Oozy, miry or muddy. Optics, the science that treats of light and vision.

Organize, to make parts to agree and work with each other. Orient, eastern, shining.

Page, a boy that waits on some great person. Pageant, a piece of pomp or show.

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Palestine, the Holy Land. Palisade, pales or narrow pieces of wood set in the ground for an inclosure or defence.

Plume, a feather.
Pound, to bruise or grind.
Pourtray, to paint or describe
Pragmatical, meddling.

Pall, a covering thrown over the Precinct, boundary.

dead.

Palliative, what partly eases or

cures.

Panegyric, praise.

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Panoply, complete armour. Panorama, a large scene in nature or in painting. Parallel, stretched out in the same direction, and always keeping the same distance. Patmos, an island in the Ægean Sea. Patrician, noble. Pavilion, a tent.

Peak, the top of a hill which

rises to a sharp point. Peerless, without an equal. Pellucid, clear or transparent. Pendulum, part of a clock or watch. A1 Penny-pig, a small vessel of earthen ware in which children preserve their pence and halfpence.

Perpendicular, what is straight up and down as to the horizon, or as to any plain surface. Persia, a country in Asia. Phenomenon, an appearance. Philomela, name given to the nightingale.

Phœbus, name anciently given to the sun. Phrygia, a country in Asia. Picturesque, what would help to onform a good picture. Pilgrim, one who travels to a .. distance for some pious pur. pose.

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Pilot, the person that steers a ship. Pinion, a wing.

Plate, basin in which money is collected at the church door for the poor.

Precarious, uncertain.
Predatory, living by prey.
Premature, before the proper
time.

•Preposterous, putting that first
which should be last; absurd,
or foolish.
Presage, something that tells or
warns of what is coming.
Progeny, offspring.
Promulge, to proclaim or pub-
lish.

Prowl, to wander about for prey. Psylli, a people in Africa, not far from Egypt, who had the secret of preventing the noxious effects of the poison of serpents. Pyramid, a solid figure whose several sides meet in one point. Pyramidal, shaped like a pyramid.

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Russet, grey or reddishly brown. Sable, dark or black. Sacramental, bound by an oath. Sacrilege, the crime of putting

to some other use that which is devoted to religion, Salutary, what gives health either of mind or body. Sapient, wise,

Scarf, what hangs loose on the shoulders or dress, an appearance resembling this. Sceptic, one who doubts of every thing.

Scoriæ, dross or scum of metals. Sculptor, a carver.

Sculpture, to carve or engrave. Scrutiny, search or inquiry. Scythia, a country in the north of Europe and Asia. Semicircle, half a circle. Sequestered, remote from society.

Seraph, one of the orders of angels.

Siam, a country in India.

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Siren, one that entices to evil.
Skillet, a small kettle.
Sofa, a long and soft seat with
a back.

Solace, comfort.

Solar, belonging to the sun. Solicitude, anxiety or uncom

mon care.

Soliloquy, something spoken to one's self. Sparta, otherwise called Lacedæmon, the capital of Laconica, a district of Ancient Greece.

Spell, a charm, or secret and irresistible power of subduing

serpents, &c.

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in which any thing is known. done, or contained. Spicula, a small spike, like the ear of corn. Spiral, winding.

Stake, the upright beam of wood at which persecutors were wont to burn their victims. Sterile, barren. Stipulate, to bargain for. Streamer, a flag or something that flows loosely like a flag. Stucco, a kind of fine plaster for walls, cornices, &c. Sublime, to raise high. Subsidiary, that which assists. Subterraneous, under ground. Succulent, juicy.

Sully, to soil or stain.
Superfluous, more than enough.
Supernumerary,above the requi-
site number,
Supersede, to set aside.
Surge, a swelling sea.
Swain, a man living in the coun-
try, and engaged in country
pursuits.

Sward, the surface of the ground.
Swoon, a fainting fit.
Symphony, harmonious music.
Syracuse, the ancient capital of
Sicily.
Tartary, a country in Asia.
Teem, to be full.

Te Deum, a particular hymn in
the religious service of the
Roman Catholics.
Temerity, rashness.

Temperature, the particular de-
gree of heat or cold.
Tenacity, the adhering of one
part to another.
Texture, what is woven, or is in

the form of what is woven. Tide, ebb and flow of the sea, a stream, time or season. Tint, colour. Tiny, little.

Torpid, motionless.
Torrid, burning or hot.

Sphere, the place or extent with- Transient, soon past.

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Transmute, to change one thing Vails, perquisites or emolu

into another.

Tresses, curl of hair, or of what

resembles hair. Trophy, something shown or kept in proof of victory. Trowel, a mason or bricklayer's instrument for taking up and spreading his lime. Truss, to pack close together or bundle up.

Turbid, muddy.
Turkey, an empire partly in Eu-..
rope, and partly in Asia.
Umbrage, shadow.

Undulating, moving like a wave.
Unscaleable, what cannot be

scaled or climbed. Unweeting, ignorant. Vacillate, to go from side to side.

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Valetudinarian, a sickly or infirm person.

Verdure, green colour.
Verge, edge or brink.
Vernal, belonging to the spring.
Versailles, a town in France.
Vestal, pure.

Vibrate, to quiver.

Vigils, watchings in the night.
Vintage, time of gathering the
grapes for wine.
Vista, avenue.

Vitrify, to change into glass.

Zenith, the point exactly over head, or the very highest point.

Zone, a division of the earth.

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