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To couch, P. L. ii. 536. to fix or place the spear in the rest, in the posture of attack; from the French coucher, to place

Couchant, P. L. iv. 406. lying down, squatting To cover, P. L. i 763. to inclose

Crank, P. any conceit formed by twisting, or changing, in any manner, the form or meaning of a word

To craze, P. L. xii. 210. S. A. 571. to crush, bruise, or break in pieces, to weaken

Crescent, P. L. x. 434. any similitude of the moon increasing. The Turks bear the horned moon, the crescent, in their ensigns

Crescent, P. L. i. 439, increasing, growing, in a state of increase

Cresset, P. L. i. 728. a great blazing light set upon a beacon, light-house, or watch-tower

To crown, P. L. v. 445. to fill above the brim, yet not so as to run over

Crude, not brought to perfection, unfinished, immature, P. L. vi. 511. premature and coming before its time, S. A, 700

Cubic. P. L. vi. 399. four square

Cuirassiers, P. R. iii. 328. horsemen armed with cuirasses, which covered the body quite round, from the neck to the waist

To culminate, P. L. iii. 617. to be vertical and shoot directly, to be in the meridian

Curfeu, P. (of the French couvre feu.)` William the Conqueror, in the first year of his reign, commanded that in every town and village a bell

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should be rung every night at eight of the clock, and that all persons should then put out their fire and candle, and go to bed; the ringing of which bell was called curfeu

Cycle, P. L. viii. 84. a circle in the heavens, ima-. ginary orbs

Cynosure, P. the star next the north-pole, by which sailors steer; the constellation of Ursa Minor

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Dank, damp, humid, moist, wet

Dapper, P. little and active, lively without bulk To dapple, P. to streak, to vary, to diversify with

colours

To damask, P. L. iv. 334. to variegate, to di-. versify

Darkling, P. L. iii. 39. in the dark without light; a word merely poetical

To debel, P. R. iv. 605. to conquer, to overcome. in war; of the Latin debello

To defend, P. L. xi. 86. xii. 207. P. R. ii. 370. to forbid, prohibit, keep off, hinder; of the French defendre, to forbid

Dell, P. a steep place or valley, a pit, hole in the ground, any cavity in the earth

Debonair, P. elegant, civil, well bred, gentle, complaisant

Democratic, P. R. iv. 269. a popular government Diapason, P. a perfect concord through all the

tones ; Gr. διάπασσῶν.

It is the same with

an octave; because there are but seven tones or notes, and then the eighth, is the same again with the first

To dight, P. to dress, to deck, to bedeck, to embellish, to adorn

Dingle, P. a narrow valley between two steep

hills

Dipsas, P. L. x. 526. a serpent, whose bite produces the sensation of unquenchable thirst; of Siva, thirst

Discontinuous wound, P. L. vi. 329. said in allusion to the old definition of a wound, that it separates the continuity of the parts. Vulnus est solutio continui

To dispart, to divide in two, to separate, to break, to burst, to rive

To dispense, to distribute, to deal out in parcels
Divan, P. L. x. 457. any council assembled
To divert, P. L. ii. 349. to turn aside, to with-
draw the mind

Divine, P. L. xi. 845, presaging, foreboding
Divinely, (from the Latin divinitus), of God, from
heaven, P. L. viii. 500. P. R.i. 26. excellently,
in the supreme degree, P. L. ix. 489
To doff, S. A. 1410. to put off dress

Dole, S. A. 1529; gifts and portions, blows dealt out; from a Saxon word, or from the Greek. από το διελεῖν, distribuere

Doughty, S. A. 1181. brave. valiant

Drear, P. L. x. 525. sad, dreadful, mournful,

dismal, sorowful

To drizzle, P. L. vi. 545. to fall in short slow

drops

Drop serene, P. L. iii. 25. a disease of the eye,

proceeding from an inspissation of the humour To drug, P. L. x. 568. to physic, to torment with the hateful taste usually found in drugs; to tincture with something offensive

Dryad, P. L. ix. 387. a wood-nymph

Dulcimer, P. L. vii. 596. a musical instrument played by striking the brass wires with little sticks

Dun, P. L. iii. 72. dark, gloomy

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Eccentric, such spheres whose centres are different from that of the earth

To eclipse, P. L. v. 776. to disgrace

Ecliptic, P. L. iii. 740. agreat circle of the sphere, supposed to be drawn through the middle of the zodiac, and making an angle with the equinoctial

Eld, P. old age

Elfe, P. a wandering spirit, supposed to be seen in wild unfrequented places

Elops, P. L. x. 525. a dumb serpent, that gives no notice by hissing to avoid him

Emblem, P. L. iv. 703. in the Greek and Latim

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sense, for inlaid floors of stone or wood, to make figures mathematical or pictural

To embow, P. to arch, to vault

Embryon, the offspring yet unfinished in the womb Emergent P. L. vii. 286. rising into view or no

tice

Empiric, P. L. v. 440. versed in experiments; who makes bold trials and experiments without much skill and knowledge

Emprise, P. L. xi. 642. an old word for enterprise Engin, P. L. i. 750. device, wit, contrivance Ens, P. any being or existence

To envermeil, P. to paint with vermilion Epicycle, P. L. viii, 84. a circle upon another circle; or a little circle whose centre is in the circumfe rence of a greater

Epilepsy, P. L. xi. 483. a convulsion or convulsive motion of the whole body, or of some of its

parts, with a loss of sense

Eremite, P. L. ii. 474. P. R. i. 8. a solitary, an anchoret, an inhabitant of the desert, one who

retires from society to contemplation and devotion

Erst, at first, in the beginning, P. formerly, long ago, S. A. 339. before, till then, till now P. L. ix. 876

Eternal, P. L. v. 173. fixed and continual, perpetual, constant

Euphrasy, P. L. xi. 414. the herb eyebright, s named from its clearing virtue

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