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Combustion, conflagration, burning in a dreadful man-
ner, P. L. i. 46.; tumult, hurry, hubbub, bustle,
hurly burly, P. L. vi. 225

To commerce, P. to hold intercourse with

Compeer, P. L. i. 127. equal, companion, colleague,
associate

Cone, P. L. iv. 776. a figure round at bottom, and lef-
sening all the way ends in a point

To conglobe, to gather into a round mass, to consoli-
date in a ball, to assemble and associate together,
P. L. vii. 239. to coalefce in a round mass, P. L.
vii. 292

To conjure, P. L. ii. 693. to conspire, to band and
league together, to bind many by an oath to some
common design; from the Latin conjurare, to bind
one another by an oath to be true and faithful in
a design undertaken

Convex, bending down on all sides round, rising in a
circular form. Convex is spoken properly of the ex-
terior furface of a globe, and concave of the interior
furface, which is a hollow

Cormorant, P. L. iv. 196. a bird that lives upon fish,
eminently greedy and rapacious

Cornice, P. L. i. 716. the uppermost member of the
entablature of a column; the highest projection of
a wall or column

Corny, P. L. vii. 321. strong or hard like horn, horny;
of the Latin corneus, horny

To couch, P. L. ii. 536. to fix or place the spear in the
reft, 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 inclofe

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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

Crefcent, P. L. x. 434. any fimilitude of the moon in-
creasing. The Turks bear the horned moon, the
crescent, in their ensigns

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

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

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

Crude, not brought to perfection, unfinished, imma-
ture, P. L. vi. 511; premature, and coming before
its time, S. A. 7co

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

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Cuirafsfiers, P. R. iii. 328. horsemen armed with cui-

raffes, 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

Gurfen, P. (of the French couvre feu.) William the
Conqueror, in the first year of his reign, command-
ed that in every town and village a bell 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, imaginary

orbs

Cynofure, P. the star next the north pole, by which
failors steer; the constellation of Ursa Minor

D

Dank, damp, humid, moist, wet

Dapper, P. little and active, lively without bulk

To dapple, P. to streak, to vary, to diversify with co-
lours

To damask, P. L. iv. 334. to variegate, to diversify
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 for-
bid, prohibit, keep off, hinder; of the French des
fendre, to forbid

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

Debonair, P. elegant, civil, well-bred, gentle, complai-

fant

Democratic, P. R. iv. 269. a popular government

Diapafon, P. a perfect concord through all the tones;
Gr. διὰ πασῶν. It is the fame with an octave; be-
cause there are but seven tones or notes, and then
the eighth is the fame again with the first

To dight, P. to dress, to deck, to bedeck, to embel-
lish, to adorn

Dingle, P. a narrow valley between two steep hills
Dipfas, P. L. x. 526. a ferpent, whose bite produces

the sensation of unquenchable thirst; of δίψα, 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 eft folutio continui

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

To difpenfe, to distribute, to deal out in parcels
Divan, P. L. x. 457. any council assembled

To divert, P. R. ii. 349. to turn aside, to withdraw
the mind

Divine, P. L. ix. 845. presaging, foreboding
Divinely, (from the Latin divinitus) of God, from
heaven, P. L. viii. 500. P. R. i. 26.; excellently, in

the fupreme degree, P. L. ix. 489

To doff, S. Α. 1410. to put off dress

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

Doughty, S. A. 1181. brave, valiant
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Drear, P. L. x. 325. fad, dreadful, mournful, dismal,
forrowful

To drieźle, P. L. vi. 345. to fall in short flow drops
Drop ferène, P. L. iii. 25. a disease of the eye, proceed-
ing from an infpiflation of the humour
To drug, P. L. x. 568. to phyfic, to torment with the
hateful tafte usually found in drugs; to tincture
with fomething offenfive

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

Dan, P. L. ii. 72. dark, gloomy

E

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. a great circle of the sphere, fup-
posed to be drawn through the middle of the zo-
diac, 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 ferpent, that gives no no-
tice by hifling to avoid him

Emblem, P. L. iv. 703. in the Greek and Latin fenfe,
for inlaid floors of stone or wood, to make figures
mathematical or pictural

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