2. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

3. (Math.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

 By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits.

4. (Anat.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

 Dig"it, v. t. To point at or out with the finger. [R.]

 Dig"i*tal (dj"*tal), a. [L. digitals.] Of or pertaining to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

 Dig"i*ta'lin (?), n. [Cf. F. digitaline.] (a) (Med.)
 Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties. (b) (Chem.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts.
 It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.

 Dig'i*ta"lis (?), n. [NL.: cf. F. digitale. So named (according to Linnæus) from its finger-shaped corolla.] 1. (Bot.)
 A genus of plants including the foxglove.

2. (Med.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

 Dig"i*tate (?), v. t. [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit.] To point out as with the finger. [R.]
 Robinson (Eudoxa).
 { Dig"i*tate (?), Dig"i*ta'ted (?) }, a. [L. digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly (#), adv.
 Dig'i*ta"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. digitation.] A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

 Dig"i*ti*form (?), a. [L. digitus a finger + -form.]
 Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

 Dig"i*ti*grade (?), a. [L. digitus finger, toe + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. digitigrade.] (Zoöl.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

 Dig"i*ti*grade, n. (Zoöl.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

 Dig'i*ti*par"tite (?), a. [L. digitus finger + partite.]
 (Bot.) Parted like the fingers.

 Dig"i*tize (?), v. t. [Digit + -ize.] To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
 Dig'i*to"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. L. digitus a finger.] A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

 Dig"i*tule (?), n. [L. digitulus, dim. of digitus.]
 (Zoöl.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

 Di*gla"di*ate (?), v. i. [L. digladiari; di- = dis- + gladius a sword.] To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.]

Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes.

Hales.
 Di*gla'di*a"tion (?), n. Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.
 Di*glot"tism (?), n. [Gr. &?; speaking two languages; di- = di's- twice + &?; tongue. See Glottis.] Bilingualism. [R.] Earle.
 Di"glyph (?), n. [Gr. &?;; di- = di's- twice + &?; to hollow out, carve.] (Arch.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

 Dig*na"tion (?), n. [L. dignatio.] The act of thinking worthy; honor. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
 Digne (?), a. [F., fr. L. dignus. See Design.] 1.
 Worthy; honorable; deserving. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Suitable; adequate; fit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
 Dig'ni*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [See Dignify.] The act of dignifying; exaltation.

 Dig"ni*fied (?), a. Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.

 Dig"ni*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dignified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dignifying.] [OF. dignifier, fr. LL. dignificare; L. dignus worthy + ficare (in comp.), facere to make.
 See Deign, and Fact.] To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.

 Your worth will dignify our feast.

B. Jonson.
Syn. -- To exalt; elevate; prefer; advance; honor; illustrate; adorn; ennoble.

 Dig"ni*ta*ry (?), n.; pl. Dignitaries (#). [Cf. F. dignitaire, fr. L. dignitas.] One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

 Dig"ni*ty (?), n.; pl. Dignities (#). [OE. dignete, dignite, OF. digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. See Dainty, Deign.] 1.
 The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.

2. Elevation; grandeur.

 The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings.

Shak.
3. Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation. Macaulay.
 And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

Esth. vi. 3.
 Reuben, thou art my firstborn,... the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.

Gen. xlix. 3.
4. Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of mien, manner, style, etc.

 A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language.

Macaulay.
5. One holding high rank; a dignitary.

 These filthy dreamers... speak evil of dignities.

Jude. 8.
6. Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim. [Obs.]


berare to strike asunder; di- = dis- + verberare. See Verberate.] To strike or sound through. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).
 Di*ver'ber*a"tion (?), n. A sounding through.

 Di*verge" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Diverged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diverging.] [L. di- = dis- + vergere to bend, incline. See Verge.] 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

2. To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

 Di*verge"ment (?), n. Divergence.

 { Di*ver"gence (?), Di*ver"gen*cy (?), } n. [Cf. F. divergence.]
 1. A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

 Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.

&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;.
2. Disagreement; difference.

 Related with some divergence by other writers.

Sir G. C. Lewis.
 Di*ver"gent (?), a. [Cf. F. divergent. See Diverge.] 1.
 Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

2. (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.

3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.

Divergent series. (Math.) See Diverging series, under Diverging.

 Di*ver"ging, a. Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.

Diverging series (Math.), a series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is extended indefinitely; -- opposed to a converging series.

 Di*ver"ging*ly (?), adv. In a diverging manner.

 Di"vers (?), a. [F. divers, L. diversus turned in different directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. Diverse.] 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.]

 Every sect of them hath a divers posture.

Bacon.
 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds.

Deut. xxii. 9.
2. Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.

Divers of Antonio's creditors.

Shak.
Divers is now limited to the plural; as, divers ways (not divers way). Besides plurality it ordinarily implies variety of kind.

 Di"verse (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See Divers.]
 1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.

 The word... is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.

J. Edwards.
 Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she.

R. Browning.
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.

 Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

B. Jonson.
 Di*verse" (?), adv. In different directions; diversely.

 di*verse" (d*vrs"), v. i. To turn aside. [Obs.]

 The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart.

Spenser.
 Di"verse*ly (?), adv. 1. In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon.
 How diversely love doth his pageants play.

Spenser.
2. In different directions; to different points.

 On life's vast ocean diversely we sail.

Pope.
 Di*verse"ness (?), n. The quality of being diverse.

 Di*ver'si*fi'a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.
 Di*ver"si*fi'a*ble (?), a. Capable of being diversified or varied.
 Boyle.
 Di*ver'si*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [See Diversify.] 1. The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. Boyle.
2. State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.

 Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced.

Adventurer.
 Di*ver"si*fied (?), a. Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.

 Di*ver"si*fi'er (?), n. One who, or that which, diversifies.

 Di*ver"si*form (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + -form.]
 Of a different form; of varied forms.

 Di*ver"si*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diversified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying.] [F. diversifier, LL. diversificare, fr. L. diversus diverse + ficare (in comp.), akin to facere to make. See Diverse.] To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

 Separated and diversified on from another.

Locke.
 Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature.

I. Taylor.
 Di'ver*sil"o*quent (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] Speaking in different ways. [R.]

 Di*ver"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. diversion. See Divert.] 1.
 The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox.
 Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers.

Addison.
3. (Mil.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.

Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment.

 Di*ver"si*ty (?), n.; pl. Diversities (#). [F. diversité, L. diversitas, fr. diversus. See Diverse.] 1. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.

 They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety.

South.
2. Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." Shak. "Diversities of opinion." Secker.
3. Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope.
Syn. -- See Variety.

 Di'ver*siv"o*lent (?), a. [L. diversus diverse + volens, -entis, p. pr. of velle to wish.] Des


naval service; as, to crimp seamen.

 Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him. Carlyle.
4. (Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.

Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
 -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

 Crimp, a. 1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.]

 Now the fowler... treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.
2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.]

 The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.
 Crimp, n. 1. A coal broker. [Prov. Eng.] De Foe.
2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.
3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

4. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
5. A game at cards. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Boot crimp. See under Boot.

 Crimp"age (-?j), n. The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

 Crimp"er (-ãr), n. One who, or that which, crimps; as: (a) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

 Crim"ple (kr?m"p'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimpling (-pl?ng).] [Dim. of crimp, v. t. ] To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. [R.] Wiseman.
 Crimp"y (kr?mp"?), a. Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

 Crim"son (krm"z'n), n. [OE. crimson, OF. crimoisin, F. cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL. carmesinus, fr.
 Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. kmija produced by a worm; k&?;mi worm or insect + jan to generate; akin to E. kin. CF. Carmine, Kermes.] A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

 Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i.
 18.
 A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak.
 Crim"son, a. Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." Mrs. Hemans.
 The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. Prior.
 Crim"son, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimsoned (-z'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning.] To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

 Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. Shak.
 Crim"son, v. t. To become crimson; to blush.

 Ancient towers... beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.
 Cri"nal (kr"nal), a. [L. crinalis, fr. crinis the hair.] Of or pertaining to the hair. [R.] Blount.
 Cri"na*ted (kr"n*td), a. Having hair; hairy.

 Cri"na*to*ry (kr?"n?-t?-r?), a. Crinitory. Craig.
 Crin"cum (kr?n"k?m), n. [Cf. Crinkle.] A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] Hudibras.
 Crin"cum-cran"cum (kr?n"k?m-kr?n"k?m), n. A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

 Crined (krnd), a. [L. crinis hair.] (Her.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

 { Cri"nel (kr?"nEl), Cri"net (kr?"n?t), } n. [L. crinis hair.] A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.
 Cringe (krnj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cringed (krnjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cringing.] [As. crincgan, cringan, crincan, to jield, fall; akin to E. crank.] To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence, to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

 When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan.
 Sly hypocrite,... who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch? Milton.
 Flatterers... are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot.
 Cringe, v. t. To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [Obs.]

 Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Shak.
 Cringe, n. Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. "With cringe and shrug, and bow obsequious." Cowper.
 Cringe"ling, n. One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

 Crin"ger (kr?n"j?r), n. One who cringes.

 Crin"ging*ly, adv. In a cringing manner.

 Crin"gle (kr?n"g'l), n. [Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D. kring circle, and to E. cringe, crank.]
 1. A withe for fastening a gate.

2. (Naut.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

 Crin'i*cul"tur*al (kr?n'?-k?l"t?r-a]/>l; 135), a. [L. crinis hair + cultura.] Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

 Cri*nig"er*ous (kr?-n?j"?r-?s), a. [L. criniger; crinis hair + gerere to bear.] Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]

 Cri"ni*tal (kr?"n?-tal), a. Same as Crinite, 1.
 He the star crinital adoreth. Stanyhurst.
 Cri"nite


Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica). -- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. -- On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place.

 It was determined upon the spot.

Swift. Syn. -- Stain; flaw; speck; blot; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish; place; site; locality.

 Spot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spotted; p. pr. & vb.
 n. Spotting.] 1. To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.

2. To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal. [Cant] 3. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.

 My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.

Sir P. Sidney.
 If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury.

Beau. & Fl.
To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

 Spot, v. i. To become stained with spots.

 Spot"less, a. Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.

 A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife.

Waller.
Syn. -- Blameless; unspotted; unblemished; pure; immaculate; irreproachable. See Blameless.

 -- Spot"less*ly, adv. -- Spot"less*ness, n. Spot"ted, a. Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser.
Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.

 Spot"ted*ness, n. State or quality of being spotted.

 Spot"ter (?), n. One who spots.

 Spot"ti*ness (?), n. The state or quality of being spotty.

 Spot"ty (?), a. Full of spots; marked with spots.

 Spous"age (?; 48), n. [OF. espousaige, from espouser.
 See Spouse, v. t.] Espousal. [Obs.] Bale.
 Spous"al (?), a. [See Espousal, Sponsal, and Spouse.] Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments. Wordsworth.
 Spous"al, n. [See Espousal, Spouse.] Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. Dryden.
 Boweth your head under that blissful yoke... Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.

Chaucer.
 the spousals of the newborn year.

Emerson.
 Spouse (?), n. [OF. espous, espos, fem. espouse, F. époux, épouse, fr. L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p. p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, respond, Sponsor.] 1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

 At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won.

Spenser.
2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.]

 At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man.

Fabyan.
 Spouse (?), v. t. [See Espouse, and Spouse, n.] To wed; to espouse. [Obs.]

 This markis hath her spoused with a ring.

Chaucer.
 Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.

Spenser.
 She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.

Spenser.
 Spouse"-breach' (?), n. Adultery. [Obs.]

 Spouse"less, a. Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.

 Spous"ess, n. A wife or bride. [Obs.] Fabyan.
 Spout (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting.] [Cf. Sw. sputa, spruta, to spout, D. spuit a spout, spuiten to spout, and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit to eject from the mouth.] 1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

 Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee?

Chaucer.
 Next on his belly floats the mighty whale... He spouts the tide.

Creech.
2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

 Pray, spout some French, son.

Beau. & Fl.
3. To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. [Cant] Spout, v. i. 1. To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.

 All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills.

Thomson.
2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.

3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

 Spout, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v.
 t.] 1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. Addison. "A conduit with three issuing spouts." Shak.
 In whales... an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.

Sir T. Browne.
 From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.

Pope.
2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant] Spout"er (?), n. One who, or that which, spouts.

 Spout"fish (?), n. (Zoöl.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

 Spout"less, a. Having no spout. Cowper.
 Spout"shell' (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any marine gastropod shell


finer work of the primeval artists could not have been done without such aid. In Europe the "spy-glass" appears first in the Opus Majus of the learned Roger Bacon (circa A. D. 1270); and his "optic tube" (whence his saying "all things are known by perspective"), chiefly contributed to make his wide-spread fame as a wizard. The telescope was popularised by Galileo who (as mostly happens) carried off and still keeps, amongst the vulgar, all the honours of invention. Some "Illustrators" of The Nights confound this "Nazzßrah," the Pers.
 "D·r-bÝn," or far-seer, with the "Magic Mirror," a speculum which according to Gower was set up in Rome by Virgilius the Magician hence the Mirror of Glass in the Squire's tale; Merlin's glassie Mirror of Spenser (F. Q. ii. 24); the mirror in the head of the monstrous fowl which forecast the Spanish invasion to the Mexicans; the glass which in the hands of Cornelius Agrippa (A. D. 1520) showed to the Earl of Surrey fair Geraldine "sick in her bed;" to the globe of glass in The Lusiads; Dr.
 Dee's show-stone, a bit of cannel-coal; and lastly the zinc and copper disk of the absurdly called "electro-biologist." I have noticed this matter at some length in various places.]

 328 (return) [ D'Herbelot renders Soghd Samarkand = plain of Samarkand. Hence the old "Sogdiana," the famed and classical capital of Mßwarßnnahr, our modern Transoxiana, now known as Samarkand. The Hindi translator has turned "Soghd" into "Sadß" and gravely notes that "the village appertained to Arabia." He possibly had a dim remembrance of the popular legend which derives "Samarkand" from Shamir or Samar bin Afrik·s, the Tobba King of Al-Yaman, who lay waste Soghd-city ("Shamir kand" = Shamir destroyed); and when rebuilt the place was called by the Arab. corruption Samarkand. See Ibn Khallikan ii. 480. Ibn Haukal (Kitßb al Mamßlik wa al-Masßlik = Book of Realms and Routes), whose Oriental Geography (xth century) was translated by Sir W. Ouseley (London, Oriental Press, 1800), followed by Ab· 'l-Fidß, mentions the Himyaritic inscription upon an iron plate over the Kash portal of Samarkand (Appendix No. iii.).]

 329 (return) [ The wish might have been highly indiscreet and have exposed the wisher to the resentment of the two other brothers. In parts of Europe it is still the belief of the vulgar that men who use telescopes can see even with the naked eye objects which are better kept hidden; and I have heard of troubles in the South of France because the villagers would not suffer the secret charms of their women to become as it were the public property of the lighthouse employés.]

 330 (return) [ "Jßm-i-JamshÝd" is a well worn commonplace in Moslem folk-lore; but commentators cannnot agree whether "Jßm" be = a mirror or a cup. In the latter sense it would represent the Cyathomantic cup of the Patriarch Joseph and the symbolic bowl of Nestor. JamshÝd may be translated either Jam the Bright or the Cup of the Sun: this ancient King is Solomon of the grand old Guebres.]

 331 (return) [ This passage may have suggested to Walter Scott one of his descriptions in "The Monastery."]

 332 (return) [ In the text "LßjawardÝ," for which see vols. iii. 33, and ix. 190.]

 333 (return) [ In Galland and the H. V. "Prince Husayn's."]

 334 (return) [ This is the "Gandharba-lagana" (fairy wedding) of the Hindus; a marriage which lacked only the normal ceremonies. For the Gandharbas = heavenly choristers see Moor's "Hind· Pantheon," p. 237, etc.]

 335 (return) [ "Perfumed with amber" (-gris?) says Galland.]

 336 (return) [ The Hind term for the royal levée, as "Selßm" is the Persian.]

 337 (return) [ Arab. "'Ilm al-Ghayb" = the Science of Hidden Things which, says the Hadis, belongeth only to the Lord. Yet amongst Moslems, as with other faiths, the instinctive longing to pry into the Future has produced a host of pseudo-sciences, Geomancy, Astrology, Prophecy and others which serve only to prove that such knowledge, in the present condition of human nature, is absolutely unattainable.]

 338 (return) [ In folk-lore and fairy tales the youngest son of mostly three brothers is generally Fortune's favourite: at times also he is the fool or the unlucky one of the family, Cinderella being his counterpart (Mr. Clouston, i. 321).]

 339 (return) [ The parasang (Gr.
 {Greek}), which Ibn Khall. (iii. 315) reduces to three miles, has been derived wildly enough from Fars or Pars (Persia proper) sang = (mile) stone. Chardin supports the etymology, "because leagues are marked out with great tall stones in the East as well as the West, e.g., ad primam (vel secundam) lapidem."]

 340 (return) [ A huge marquee or pavilion-tent in India.]

 341 (return) [ The Jinn feminine; see vol. i. 10. The word hardly corresponds with the Pers. "Peri" and Engl.
 "Fairy," a creation, like the "DÝv," of the so-called "Aryan," not "Semitic," race.]

 342 (return) [ Galland makes the Fairy most unjustifiably fear that her husband is meditating the murder of his father; and the HindÝ in this point has much the advantage of the Frenchman.]

 343 (return) [ Pers. = "Light of the World"; familiar to Europe as the name of the Grand Moghul JehßngÝr's principal wife.]

 344 (return) [ The Arab stirrup, like that of the Argentine Gaucho, was originally made of wood, liable to break, and forming a frail support for lancer and sworder. A famous chief and warrior, Ab· Sa'Ýd al-Muhallab (ob. A. H. 83 = 702) first gave orders to forge foot-rests of iron.]

 345 (return) [ For this Egyptian and Syrian weapon see vol. i. 234.]

 346 (return) [ See vol. vii. 93, where an error of punctuation confounds it with Kerbela,—a desert with a place of pilgrimage. "Samßwah" in Ibn Khall. (vol. i. 108) is also the name of a town on the Euphrates.]

 347 (return) [ Nazarßnah prop. = the gift (or gifts) offered at visits by a Moslem noble or feoffee in India to his feudal superior; and the Kalichah of Hind·, Malabar, Goa and the Blue Mountains (p. 197). Hence the periodical tributes and especially the presents which represent our "legacy-duty" and the "succession-duty" for Rajahs and Nabobs, the latter so highly lauded by "The Times," as the logical converse of the Corn-l


had been the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel.
A Note on the Text The Age of Innocence first appeared in four large installments in The Pictorial Review, from July to October 1920. It was published that same year in book form by D. Appleton and Company in New York and in London. Wharton made extensive stylistic, punctuation, and spelling changes and revisions between the serial and book publication, and more than thirty subsequent changes were made after the second impression of the book edition had been run off. This authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first edition, which incorporates the last set of extensive revisions that are obviously authorial.


FIRST AND LAST THINGS A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE By H.G. Wells CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.
 BOOK THE FIRST. — METAPHYSICS.
 1.1. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS.
 1.2. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY.

 1.3. THE WORLD OF FACT.
 1.4. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT.
 1.5. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION.
 1.6. EMPTY TERMS.
 1.7. NEGATIVE TERMS.
 1.8. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC.
 1.9. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT.
 1.10. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS.
 1.11. BELIEFS.
 1.12. SUMMARY.
 BOOK THE SECOND — OF BELIEFS 2.1. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH.
 2.2. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD.
 2.3. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION.
 2.4. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN.
 2.5. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE.
 2.6. A REVIEW OF MOTIVES.
 2.7. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE.
 2.8. THE BEING OF MANKIND.
 2.9. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE.
 2.10. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT.
 2.11. THE SYNTHESIS.
 2.12. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY.
 2.13. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY.
 2.14. OF OTHER RELIGIONS.
 2.15.
 BOOK THE THIRD — OF GENERAL CONDUCT 3.1. CONDUCT FOLLOWS FROM BELIEF.
 3.2. WHAT IS GOOD?
 3.3. SOCIALISM.
 3.4. A CRITICISM OF CERTAIN FORMS OF SOCIALISM.
 3.5. HATE AND LOVE.
 3.6. THE PRELIMINARY SOCIAL DUTY.
 3.7. WRONG WAYS OF LIVING.
 3.8. SOCIAL PARASITISM AND CONTEMPORARY INJUSTICES.
 3.9. THE CASE OF THE WIFE AND MOTHER.
 3.10. ASSOCIATIONS.
 3.11. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD.
 3.12. CONCERNING NEW STARTS AND NEW RELIGIONS.

 3.13. THE IDEA OF THE CHURCH.
 3.14. OF SECESSION.
 3.15. A DILEMMA.
 3.16. A COMMENT.
 3.17. WAR.
 3.18. WAR AND COMPETITION.
 3.19. MODERN WAR.
 3.20. OF ABSTINENCES AND DISCIPLINES.
 3.21. ON FORGETTING, AND THE NEED OF PRAYER, READING, DISCUSSION AND WORSHIP 3.22. DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY.
 3.23. ON DEBTS OF HONOUR.
 3.24. THE IDEA OF JUSTICE.
 3.25. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE.
 3.26. THE WEAKNESS OF IMMATURITY.
 3.27. POSSIBILITY OF A NEW ETIQUETTE.
 3.28. SEX.
 3.29. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
 3.30. CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE THING THAT IS.
 3.31. CONDUCT TOWARDS TRANSGRESSORS.
 BOOK THE FOURTH — SOME PERSONAL THINGS.
 4.1. PERSONAL LOVE AND LIFE.
 4.2. THE NATURE OF LOVE.
 4.3. THE WILL TO LOVE.
 4.4. LOVE AND DEATH.
 4.5. THE CONSOLATION OF FAILURE.
 4.6. THE LAST CONFESSION.

 INTRODUCTION.

 Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence. We thought it would be of very great interest to ourselves and each other if we made some sort of frank mutual confession.
 We arranged to hold a series of meetings in which first one and then another explained the faith, so far as he understood it, that was in him.
 We astonished ourselves and our hearers by the irregular and fragmentary nature of the creeds we produced, clotted at one point, inconsecutive at another, inconsistent and unconvincing to a quite unexpected degree. It would not be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer floundering about with an air of exquisite illumination, the audience attentive with an expression of thwarted edification upon its various brows. For my own part I grew so interested in planning my lecture and in joining up point and point, that my notes soon outran the possibilities of the hour or so of meeting for which I was preparing them. The meeting got only a few fragments of what I had to say, and made what it could of them.
 And after that was over I let myself loose from limits of time and length altogether and have expanded these memoranda into a book.

 It is as it stands now the frank confession of what one man of the early Twentieth Century has found in life and himself, a confession just as frank as the limitations of his character permit; it is his metaphysics, his religion, his moral standards, his uncertainties and the expedients with which he has met them. On every one of these departments and aspects I write—how shall I put it?—as an amateur. In every section of my subject there are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained analysis of this or that among the questions I discuss, and there is a literature so enormous in the aggregate that only a specialist scholar could hope to know it. I have not been unmindful of these professors and this literature; I have taken such opportunities as I have found, to test my propositions by them. But I feel that such apology as one makes for amateurishness in this field has a lesser quality of self-condemnation than if one were dealing with narrower, more defined and fact-laden matters. There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, surgery and so forth, we may take on the reputation of an expert, but our own fundamental beliefs, our rules of conduct, we must all make for ourselves. We may listen and read, but the views of others we cannot take on credit; we must rethink them and "make them our own." And we cannot do without fundamental beliefs, explicit or implicit. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,—all men indeed who are not specialized students of philosophical subjects,—even if their philosophical enterprise goes no further than prompt recognition of and submission to Authority.

 And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate.
 People are too apt to suppose that in order to discuss morals a man must have exceptional moral gifts. I would dispute that naive supposition. I am an ingenuous enquirer with, I think, some capacity for religious feeling, but neither a prophet nor a saint. On the whole I should be inclined to classify myself as a bad man rather than a good; not indeed as any sort of picturesque scoundrel or non-moral expert, but as a person frequently irritable, ungenerous and forgetful, and intermittently and in small but


Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet.

Shak.
 And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies.

Dryden.
2. Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance.

 When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt.

Ames.
3. Easy; unobstructed. [Obs.]

 The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt.

Sir H. Wotton.
Syn. -- Ready; expeditious; quick; agile; alert; brisk; nimble. -- Prompt, Ready, Expeditious. One who is ready is prepared to act at the moment. One who is prompt acts at the moment. One who is expeditious carries through an undertaking with constant promptness.

 Prompt, n. (Com.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods.
 See Prompt-note.

 To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months.

J. S. Mill.
 Prompt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prompted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prompting.]

1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.

 God first... prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity.

Jer. Taylor.
2. To suggest; to dictate.

 And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams.

Pope.
3. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

 Prompt"-book' (&?;), n. The book used by a prompter of a theater.

 Prompt"er (?), n.
1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.

 Prompt"i*tude (?), n. [F., fr. L. promptitudo. See Prompt, a.] The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.

 Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage.

I. Taylor.
 Prompt"ly, adv. In a prompt manner.

 Prompt"ness, n.
1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.

2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.

 Prompt"-note' (?), n. (Com.) A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

 Promp"tu*a*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to preparation. [R.] Bacon.
 Promp"tu*a*ry, n. [L. promptuarium, fr. promptuarius belonging to distribution, distributing: cf, F. promptuaire. See Prompt, a.] That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. Woodward.
 Promp"ture (?; 135), n. [See Prompt, a.] Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [R.] Shak. Coleridge.
 Pro*mul"gate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Promulgated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Promulgating.] [L. promulgatus, p. p. of promulgare to promulgate; of unknown origin. Cf. Promulge.] To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

Syn. -- To publish; declare; proclaim. See Announce.

 Pro'mul*ga"tion (?), n. [L. promulgatio: cf. F. promulgation.]
 The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. South.
 Pro"mul*ga'tor (?), n. [L.] One who promulgates or publishes. Dr.
 H. More.
 Pro*mulge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Promulged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Promulging (?).] [Cf. F. promulguer. See Promulgate.] To promulgate; to publish or teach. Blackstone.
 Extraordinary doctrines these for the age in which they were promulged.

Prescott.
 Pro*mul"ger (?), n. One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown. Atterbury.
 ||Pro*mus"cis (?), n. [L., corruption of proboscis.] (Zoöl.)
 The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera.

 ||Pro*na"os (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; before + &?; temple.] (Arch.) The porch or vestibule of a temple.

 Pro"nate (?), a. [L. pronatus, p. p. of pronare to bend forward. See Prone.] Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees. Kane.
 Pro*na"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. pronation.] (Physiol.) (a) The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward. (b) That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward. (c) The position of the limb resulting from the act of pronation. Opposed to supination.

 Pro*na"tor (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) A muscle which produces pronation.

 Prone (?), a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. &?;, &?;, Skr.
 pravana sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for.
 See Pro-.]

1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

 Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone.

Milton.
2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.

 Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.

Byron.
3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." Milton.
4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.

 Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land.

Blackmore.
5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to. "Prone to mischief." Shak.
 Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.

Landor.
 Prone"ly, adv. In a prone manner or position.

 Prone"ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

2. The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.

3. Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.

4. Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to selfgratification.

 Pro*neph"ric (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

 ||Pro*neph"ros (?), ||Pro*neph"ron (&?;), n. [ NL., fr. Gr.
 &?; before + &?; a kidney.] (Anat.) The head kidney. See under Head.

 Prong (?), n. [Cf. D. prangen to pinch, press, LG. prange a stick, or W. procio to thrust, E. prowl, pang.]

1. A


outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made.
 See Cutose.

2. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

3. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.

Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.

 Cork, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corked (kôrkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Corking.] 1. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

2. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

 Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. Bp. Hall.
 To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.

 Cork"age (-j), n. The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

 Corked (k?rkt), a. having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

 Cork" fos'sil (kôrk" fs'sl). (Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

 Cork"i*ness (-*ns), n. The quality of being corky.

 Cork"ing pin' (kôrk"ng pn'). A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.
 Cork"screw' (-skr'), n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

 Cork"screw', v. t. To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.
 Cork"wing' (-wng'), n. (Zoöl.) A fish; the goldsinny.

 Cork"y (-), a. 1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

 Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.
2. Tasting of cork.

 Corm (kôrm), n. [See Cormus.] 1. (Bot.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

2. (Biol.) Same as Cormus, 2.

 Cor*mog"e*ny (kôr*mj"*n), n. [Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + root of gi'gnesqai to be born.] (Biol.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

 Cor'mo*phy*log"e*ny (k?r'm?-f?-l?j"?-n?), n. [Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny.] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.
 { Cor"mo*phytes (kôr"m*fts), ||Cor*moph"y*ta (kr*mf"*t), } n. pl.
 [NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. kormo's trunk of a tree + fyto'n plant.]
 (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

 Cor"mo*rant (kôr"m*rant), n. [F. cormoran, fr.
 Armor. mr-vran a sea raven; mr sea + bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven.] 1. (Zoöl.)
 Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.
 Cor"mo*raut, a. Ravenous; voracious.

Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.
 ||Cor"mus (kôr"ms), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kormo's the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. kei'rein to shear.]

1. (Bot.) See Corm.

2. (Biol.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

 Corn (kôrn), n. [L. cornu horn: cf. F. corne horn, hornlike excrescence. See Horn.] A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.

 Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.
 The substance of a corn usually resembles horn, but where moisture is present, as between the toes, it is white and sodden, and is called a soft corn.

 Corn, n. [AS. corn; akin to OS. korn, D. koren, G., Dan., Sw., & Icel. korn, Goth. kaúrn, L. granum, Russ. zerno. Cf. Grain, Kernel.] 1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

2. The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

 In Scotland, corn is generally restricted to oats, in the United States, to maize, or Indian corn, of which there are several kinds; as, yellow corn, which grows chiefly in the Northern States, and is yellow when ripe; white or southern corn, which grows to a great height, and has long white kernels; sweet corn, comprising a number of sweet and tender varieties, grown chiefly at the North, some of which have kernels that wrinkle when ripe and dry; pop corn, any small variety, used for popping.

3. The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.

 In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.
4. A small, hard particle; a grain. "Corn of sand." Bp.
 Hall. "A corn of powder." Beau. & Fl.
Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal.
 -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily.
 -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlorops tæniopus. (


-winded.
Bavol, s. Wind, air. Sans.
Pavana. See Beval.
Bavol-engro, s. A wind-fellow; figurative name for a ghost.
Baw, bau, s. Fellow, comrade: probably the same as the English country-word baw, bor. Ger.
Bauer. Av acoi, baw, Come here, fellow. Boer, in Wallachian, signifies a boyard or lord.
Beano, part. pass. Born.
p. 18Beano abri. Born out of doors, like a Gypsy or vagrant.
Bebee, s. Aunt. Rus. Baba (grandmother, old woman, hag); Baba Yagā, the female demon of the Steppes.
Beng / Bengui, s. Devil. Sans.
Pangka (mud). According to the Hindu mythology, there is a hell of mud; the bengues of the Gypsies seem to be its tenants.
Bengako tan, s. Hell. Lit. place belonging to devils.
Bengeskoe potan. Devil's tinder, sulphur.
Bengeskoe / Benglo, a. Devilish.
Bengree, s. Waistcoat. Span. Gyp.
Blani. Wal. (Blāni fur).
Berro, béro, s. A ship, a hulk for convicts. Span. Gyp. Bero, las galeras, the galleys; presidio, convict garrison.
Ber-engro, s. A sailor.
Bero-rukh, s. A mast.
Bersh / Besh, s. A year. Sans.
Varsha. He could cour drey his besh, he could fight in his time.
Bershor, pl. Years.
Besh, v. n. To sit: beshel, he sits.
Beshaley / Beshly, Gypsy name of the Stanley tribe.
Besh-engri, s. A chair. See Skammen.
Beti, a. Little, small.
Beval, s. Wind. See Bavol.
Bi, prep. Without: bi luvvu, without money.
Bicunyie, a. Alone, undone: meklis or mukalis bicunyie, let it alone.
Bikhin / Bin v. a. To sell.
Hin. Bikna.
Bikhnipen, s. Sale.
Birk, s. Woman's breast. See Bark.
Bis, a. Twenty.
Bisheni, s. The ague.
Bitch / Bitcha, v. a. To send.
Sans. Bis, bisa.
Bitched / Bitcheno, part. pass. Sent p.
19Bitcheno pawdel. Sent across, transported.
Bitti, s. a. Small, piece, a little. This word is not true Gypsy.
Bloen / Blowing, A cant word, but of Gypsy origin, signifying a sister in debauchery, as Pal denotes a brother in villainy. It is the Plani and Beluñi of the Spanish Gypsies, by whom sometimes Beluñi is made to signify queen; e.g. Beluñi de o tarpe (tem opré), the Queen of Heaven, the Virgin. Blower is used by Lord Byron, in his 'Don Juan.' Speaking of the highwayman whom the Don shoots in the vicinity of London, he says that he used to go to such-and-such places of public resort with—his blowen.
Bob, s. A bean. Wal. Bob: pl.
bobbis, bobs.
Boccalo, a. Hungry: boccalé pers, hungry bellies.
Bokht, s. Luck, fortune: kosko bokht, good luck. Sans. Bhãgya. Pers.
Bakht.
Bokra, s. A sheep. Hun. Birka.
Bokra-choring. Sheep-stealing.
Bokkar-engro, s. A shepherd: bokkar-engro drey, the dude, man in the moon.
Bokkari-gueri, s. Shepherdess.
Bokkeriskoe, a. Sheepish, belonging to a sheep: bokkeriskey piré, sheep's feet.
Bolla, v. a. To baptize.
Bonnek, s. Hold: lel bonnek, to take hold.
Booko, s. Liver. See Bucca.
Bolleskoe divvus. Christmas-day; query, baptismal day. Wal. Botez (baptism).
Bollimengreskoenaes. After the manner of a Christian.
Boogones, s. Smallpox, pimples. See Bugnior.
Bor, s. A hedge.
Boona, a. Good. Lat. Bonus.
Wal. Boun.
Booty, s. Work.
Bori, a. fem. Big with child, enceinte.
p. 20Booty, v. a. To work, labour.
Boro, a. Great, big. Hin.
Bura. Mod. Gr. βαρὺς (heavy).
Borobeshemeskeguero, s. Judge, great-sitting-fellow.
Boro Gav. London, big city. See Lundra.
Boronashemeskrutan. Epsom race-course.
Bosh, s. Fiddle. Pers. [Persian which cannot be reproduced] Bazee, baz (play, joke), whence the English cant word 'bosh.' See Bashadi.
Boshomengro, s. Fiddler.
Bosno / Boshno, s. A cock, male-bird.
Sans. Puchchin. Wal. Bosh (testicle).
Gaelic, Baois (libidinousness).
Boshta, s. A saddle.
Bostaris, s. A bastard.
Bovalo, a. Rich. Sans. Bala (strong).
Bowle, s. Snail. See Baul.
Brishen / Brisheno, s. Rain. Hun.
Gyp. Breshino. Sans. Vrish. Mod. Gr.
βρέξιμον.
Brisheneskey, a. Rainy: brisheneskey rarde, a rainy night; brisheneskey chiros, a time of rain. Mod.
Gr. καιρὸς βροχερός.
Bucca, s. Liver. Sans. Bucca (heart). Wal. Phikat.
Bucca naflipen, s. Liver-complaint.
Buchee, s. Work, labour. See Butsi.
Buddigur, s. A shop. Span.
Bodega.
Buddikur divvus, s. Shopping-day: Wednesday, Saturday.
Bugnes / Bugnior, s. pl. Smallpox, blisters. Gael. Boc (a pimple), bolg (a blister), bolgach (small-pox). Wal. Mougour (a bud).
Fr. Bourgeon.
Buklo, a. Hungry: buklo tan, hungry spot, a common. Hun. Gyp. Buklo tan (a wilderness).
Bul, s. Rump, buttock.
Bungshoror / Bungyoror, s. pl. Corks.
Busnis / Busnior, s. pl. Spurs, prickles.
Mod. Gr. βάσανοω (pain, torment).
Buroder, ad. More: ad. ne buroder, no more.
Bute, a. ad. Much, very. Hin.
Būt.
p. 21Butsi / Buty, s. Work, labour.
Butying. Working.
C Caen / Cane, v. n. To stink.
Caenipen / Canipen, s. A stench.
Caeninaflipen, s. Stinking sickness, the plague, gaol-fever. The old cant word Canihen, signifying the gaol-fever, is derived from this Gypsy term.
Candelo / Cannelo, a. Stinking: cannelo mas, stinking meat. Sans. Gandha (smell).
Callico / Collico, s. To-morrow, also yesterday:


Irishman; — a term used in contempt. Johnson.
 Teak (?), n. [Malayalm tekku.] (Bot.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. [Written also teek.]

African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; — called also African oak.
 — New Zeland teak, a large tree (Vitex littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.

 Tea"ket'tle (?), n. A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

 Teal (?), n. [OE. tele; akin to D. teling a generation, production, teal, telen to breed, produce, and E. till to cultivate. The English word probably once meant, a brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

 The common European teal (Anas crecca) and the European blue-winged teal, or garganey (A. querquedula or A. circia), are well-known species. In America the blue-winged teal (A. discors), the green-winged teal (A. Carolinensis), and the cinnamon teal (A. cynaoptera) are common species, valued as game birds. See Garganey.

Goose teal, a goslet. See Goslet. — Teal duck, the common European teal.

 Team (?), n. [OE. tem, team, AS. teám, offspring, progeny, race of descendants, family; akin to D. toom a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team, bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget, Icel. taumr to rein, bridle, Dan. tömme, Sw.
 töm, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to draw.
 √64. See Tug, and cf. Teem to bear.] 1. A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

 A team of ducklings about her.

Holland.
2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.

 A long team of snowy swans on high.

Dryden.
3. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." Spenser.
 To take his team and till the earth.

Piers Plowman.
 It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough.

Macaulay.
4. A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

5. (Zoöl.) A flock of wild ducks.

6. (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.
 Team (?), v. i. To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.

 Team, v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.] Thoreau.
 Teamed (?), a. Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.]

 Let their teamed fishes softly swim.

Spenser.
 Team"ing (?), n. 1. The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

2. (Manuf.) Contract work. [R.] Knight.
 Team"ster (?), n. One who drives a team.

 Team"work' (?), n. Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

 Tea"pot' (?), n. A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

 Tea"poy (?), n. [Hind. tipi; Hind. tin there + Per.
 pe foot.] An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

 Tear (tr), n. [AS. teár; akin to G. zärhe, OHG. zahar, OFries. & Icel. tr, Sw. tår, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. dr, W. dagr, OW.
 dacr, L. lacrima, lacruma, for older dacruma, Gr. da'kry, da'kryon, da'kryma. √59. Cf. Lachrymose.] 1. (Physiol.)
 A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

 And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear.

Chaucer.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

 Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.

Dryden.
3. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. [R.]
 "Some melodous tear." Milton.
Tear is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tear-distilling, tear-drop, tearfilled, tear-stained, and the like.

 Tear (târ), v. t. [imp. Tore (tr), ((Obs. Tare) (târ); p. p. Torn (trn); p. pr. & vb. n. Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear, zehren to consume, Icel. tæra, Goth. gataíran to destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. de'rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. √63. Cf. Darn, Epidermis, Tarre, Tirade.] 1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.

Shak.
2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

 The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me.

Addison.
4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

5. To move violently; to agitate. "Once I loved torn ocean's roar


ière, LL. frontaria.
 See Front.] 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

2. (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]

 Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.

Shak.
 Fron"tier, a. 1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

2. Of or relating to a frontier. "Frontier experience." W. Irving.
 Fron"tier, v. i. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
 Fron"tiered (?), p. a. Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

 Fron"tiers*man (?), n.; pl. Frontiersmen (&?;). A man living on the frontier.

 ||Fron'ti*gnac" (?), Fron'ti'gnan" (&?;), n. [So called from Frontignan, a town in Southern France.] 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.

 Front"ing*ly (?), adv. In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

 Fron'tin*iac" (?), n. See Frontignac.

 Fron"tis*piece (?), n. [F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy.] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.)
 The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

 Front"less (?), a. Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
 Front"less*ly, adv. Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]

 Front"let (?), n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.] 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.

 They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Deut. vi. 8.
2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.

Shak.
3. (Zoöl.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

 Fron"to- (?). [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.)
 A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

 ||Fron'ton" (?), n. [F., a pediment. See Front.] (Arch.)
 Same as Frontal, 2.

 Frop"pish (?), a. [Cf. Frap, Frape.] Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.
 Frore (?), adv. [See Frorn.] Frostily. [Obs.]

 The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Milton.
 Frorn (?), p. a. [AS. froren, p. p. of freósun to freeze. See Freeze.] Frozen. [Obs.]

 Well nigh frorn I feel.

Spenser.
 Fro"ry (?), a. [AS. freórig. See Frorn.] 1.
 Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Fairfax.
 Frost (frst; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. √18. See Freeze, v.
 i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

 The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Shak.
3. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

 He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Ps. cxlvii. 16.
4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
 [R.]

 It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.

Sir W. Scott.
Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus. -- Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. -- Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.

 The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

Kane.
 -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

 Frost (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.] 1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

 While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Wordsworth.
3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

 Frost"bird (?), n. (Zoöl.) The golden plover.

 Frost"bite (?), n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane. [1913 Webster] Frost'bite", v. t. To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.

 My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.

Pepys.
 Frost'-bit"ten (?), p. a. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

 Frost'-blite" (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray. (b) The lamb's- quarters (Chenopodium album). Dr. Prior.
 Frost"ed, a. Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with


and in Romans (ix. 20), "Hath not the Potter power over the clay?" He appears in full force in Omar-i- Khayyám (No. xxxvii.):—


, p. p. of inserere to insert; pref. inin + serere to join, connect. See Series.] To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.

 These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction.

Bp. Stillingfleet.
 In*sert"ed, a. (Bot.) Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.
 In*sert"ing, n. 1. A setting in.

2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments. [R.]

 In*ser"tion (?), n. [L. insertio: cf. F. insertion.
 See Insert.]

1. The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

2. The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx.

3. That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.

4. (Anat.) The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin.

Epigynous insertion (Bot.), the insertion of stamens upon the ovary. -- Hypogynous insertion (Bot.), insertion beneath the ovary.

 In*serve" (?), v. i. [L. inservire; inin + servire to serve.] To be of use to an end; to serve. [Obs.]

 In*serv"i*ent (?), a. [L. inserviens, p. pr. of inservire.]
 Conducive; instrumental. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
 In*ses"sion (?), n. [L. insessio, fr. insidere, insessum, to sit in. See Insidious.]

1. The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] Holland.
2. That in which one sits, as a bathing tub. [R.]

Insessions be bathing tubs half full.

Holland.
 ||In*ses"sor (?), n.; pl. Insessores (#). [See Insessores.] (Zoöl.) One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common singing birds.

 ||In'ses*so"res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. insessor, lit., one who sits down, fr. incidere. See Insession.] (Zoöl.) An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.

 In'ses*so"ri*al (?), a. (Zoöl.) 1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

2. Belonging or pertaining to the Insessores.

 In*set" (?), v. t. To infix. [Obs.] Chaucer.
 In"set (?), n. 1. That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.

2. (Bookbinding) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

 In*sev"er*a*ble (?), a. Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey.
 In*shad"ed (?), a. Marked with different shades. W. Browne.
 In"shave' (?), n. (Mech.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

 In*sheathe" (?), v. t. To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
 In*shell" (?), v. t. To hide in a shell. [Obs.] Shak.
 In*ship" (?), v. t. To embark. [Obs.] Shak.
 In"shore' (?), a. Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv. Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.

 In*shrine" (?), v. t. See Enshrine.

 In'sic*ca"tion (?), n. The act or process of drying in.

 In"side' (?), prep. or adv. Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

 In"side', a. 1. Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration.

 Kissing with inside lip.

Shak.
2. Adapted to the interior.

Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc. -- Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. -- Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, etc., in competition.

 In"side', n. 1. The part within; interior or internal portion; content.

 Looked he o' the inside of the paper?

Shak.
2. pl. The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.

 Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely.

Massinger.
3. An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.]

 So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides.

AntiJacobin.
Patent insides or outsides, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

 In*sid"i*ate (?), v. t. [L. insidiatus, p. p. of insidiare to lie in ambush, fr. insidiae. See Insidious.] To lie in ambush for. [Obs.] Heywood.
 In*sid"i*a'tor (?), n. [L.] One who lies in ambush. [Obs.] Barrow.
 In*sid"i*ous (?), a. [L. insidiosus, fr. insidiae an ambush, fr. insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See Sit.]

1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper.
2. Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.

 The insidious whisper of the bad angel.

Hawthorne.
Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked


wall'. It was originally used in situations where, after you had carefully answered a question, the questioner stared at you blankly, clearly having understood nothing that was explained. You would then throw out a "Hello, wall?" to elicit some sort of response from the questioner. Later, confused questioners began voicing "Wall?" themselves.
Node:wall follower, Next:wall time, Previous:wall, Up:= W = wall follower n. A person or algorithm that compensates for lack of sophistication or native stupidity by efficiently following some simple procedure shown to have been effective in the past. Used of an algorithm, this is not necessarily pejorative; it recalls 'Harvey Wallbanger', the winning robot in an early AI contest (named, of course, after the cocktail). Harvey successfully solved mazes by keeping a 'finger' on one wall and running till it came out the other end. This was inelegant, but it was mathematically guaranteed to work on simply-connected mazes -- and, in fact, Harvey outperformed more sophisticated robots that tried to 'learn' each maze by building an internal representation of it. Used of humans, the term is pejorative and implies an uncreative, bureaucratic, by-the-book mentality. See also code grinder; compare droid.
Node:wall time, Next:wall wart, Previous:wall follower, Up:= W = wall time n.
(also 'wall clock time') 1. 'Real world' time (what the clock on the wall shows), as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. 2. The real running time of a program, as opposed to the number of ticks required to execute it (on a timesharing system these always differ, as no one program gets all the ticks, and on multiprocessor systems with good thread support one may get more processor time than real time).
Node:wall wart, Next:wallpaper, Previous:wall time, Up:= W = wall wart n. A small power-supply brick with integral male plug, designed to plug directly into a wall outlet; called a 'wart' because when installed on a power strip it tends to block up at least one more socket than it uses.. These are frequently associated with modems and other small electronic devices which would become unacceptably bulky or hot if they had power supplies on board (there are other reasons as well having to do with the cost of UL certification).
Node:wallpaper, Next:wango, Previous:wall wart, Up:= W = wallpaper n.
1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp. a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session. (The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows.) Now rare, esp.
since other systems have developed other terms for it (e.g., PHOTO on TWENEX). However, the Unix world doesn't have an equivalent term, so perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end transcript files were :WALBEG and :WALEND, with default file WALL PAPER (the space was a path delimiter). 2. The background pattern used on graphical workstations (this is techspeak under the 'Windows' graphical user interface to MS-DOS). 3. 'wallpaper file' n. The file that contains the wallpaper information before it is actually printed on paper. (Even if you don't intend ever to produce a real paper copy of the file, it is still called a wallpaper file.)
Node:wango, Next:wank, Previous:wallpaper, Up:= W = wango /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level grovelling going on in a system during some unspecified operation. Often used in combination with mumble. For example: "You start with the '.o' file, run it through this postprocessor that does mumble-wango -- and it comes out a snazzy object-oriented executable."
Node:wank, Next:wannabee, Previous:wango, Up:= W = wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj.
[Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. 'wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe (negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get supper!") or (more positively) a wizard. Adj. 'wanky' describes something particularly clever (a person, program, or algorithm).
Conversations can also get wanky when there are too many wanks involved. This excess wankiness is signalled by an overload of the 'wankometer' (compare bogometer). When the wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave. Compare 'neep-neeping' (under neep-neep). Usage: U.S. only. In Britain and the Commonwealth this word is extremely rude and is best avoided unless one intends to give offense. Adjectival 'wanky' is less offensive and simply means 'stupid' or 'broken' (this is mainstream in Great Britain).
Node:wannabee, Next:war dialer, Previous:wank, Up:= W = wannabee /won'*-bee/ n.
(also, more plausibly, spelled 'wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering larval stage, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or suit, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of terms from this lexicon is often an indication of the wannabee nature. Compare newbie.
Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavor now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago.
When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in larval stage, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture -- communities formed spontaneously around people who, as individuals, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focused desire to become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to be hackers and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one.
Node:war dialer, Next:-ware, Previous:wannabee, Up:= W = war dialer n. A cracking tool, a program that calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or telecommunications systems). Some of these programs have become quite sophisticated, and can now detect modem, fax, or PBX tones and log each one separately. The war dialer is one of the most important tools in the phreaker's kit. These programs evolved from early demon dialers.
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[from 'software'] Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of software. For examples, see annoyware, careware, crippleware, crudware, freeware, fritterware, guiltware, liveware, meatware, payware, psychedelicware, shareware, shelfware, vaporware, wetware.
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to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.

 The Norsemen had a peculiar alphabet, consisting of sixteen letters, or characters, called runes, the origin of which is lost in the remotest antiquity. The signification of the word rune (mystery) seems to allude to the fact that originally only a few were acquainted with the use of these marks, and that they were mostly applied to secret tricks, witchcrafts and enchantments. But the runes were also used in communication by writing.

2. pl. Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword.

Longfellow.
Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription.

 Ru"ner (?), n. A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. Sir W. Temple.
 Rung (?), imp. & p. p. of Ring.

 Rung, n. [OE. ronge, AS. hrung, a staff, rod, pole; akin to G. runge a short, thick piece of iron or wood, OD. ronghe a prop, support, Icel. röng a rib in a ship, Goth. Hrugga a staff.] 1. (Shipbuilding) A floor timber in a ship.

2. One of the rounds of a ladder.

3. One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

4. (Mach.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

 Rung"head' (?), n. (Shipbuilding) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

 Ru"nic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

Runic staff. See Clog almanac, under Clog. -- Runic wand, a willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe in magical ceremonies.

 Run"let (?), n. [Run + - let.] A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.

 To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.

Lowell.
 Run"let, n. Same as Rundlet. "A stoup of sack, or a runlet of canary." Sir W. Scott.
 Run"nel (?), n. [From Run. Cf. Rindle.] A rivulet or small brook.

 Bubbling runnels joined the sound.

Collins.
 By the very sides of the way... there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming.

Masson.
 Run"ner (?), n. [From Run.] 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.
3. A messenger. Swift.
4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] R. North.
5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

6. (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.
 9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

12. (Zoöl.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

13. (Zoöl.) Any cursorial bird.

14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

 Run"net (?), n. See Rennet.

 Run"ning (?), a. 1. Moving or advancing by running.
 Specifically, of a horse; (a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. (b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. Law.
2. Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.

4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest." Milton.
 What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?

Hare.
5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.

6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.

Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or lowered. -- Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive. -- Running bowsprit (Naut.) Same as Reefing bowsprit. -- Running days (Com.), the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under a charter party, including Sundays and not limited to the working days. Simmonds. -- Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon. -- Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework. - - Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand. -- Running part (Naut.), that part of a rope that is hauled upon, -- in distinction from the standing part. -- Running rigging (Naut.), that part of a ship's rigging or ropes which passes through blocks, etc.; -- in distinction from standing rigging. -- Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.

 Run"ning, n. The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.

2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.

3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
 Run"ning*ly, adv. In a running manner.

 Run"nion (?), n. See Ronion.

 Ru*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Rune + - logy.] The science of runes. -- Ru*nol"o*gist (#), n. Run"round' (?), n. A felon or whitlow. [Colloq. U.S.]

 Runt (?), n. [Written also rant.] [Scot. runt an old cow, an old, withered woman, a hardened stem or stalk, the trunk of a tree; cf. D. rund a bullock, an ox or cow, G.


full equal citizenship for women.

 The great woman's movement and labor movement of to-day are parts of the same pressure, the same world-progress. An economic democracy must rest on a free womanhood; and a free womanhood inevitably leads to an economic democracy.


creation of the human race,(1) as she might also be pictured creating on her own initiative an individual hero such as Enkidu of the Gilgamesh Epic. The rôle of mother of mankind was also shared, as we have seen, by the Semitic Ishtar. And though the old Sumerian goddess, Ninkharsagga, the "Lady of the Mountains", appears in our Sumerian text for the first time in the character of creatress, some of the titles we know she enjoyed, under her synonyms in the great God List of Babylonia, already reflected her cosmic activities.(2) For she was known as In the myth we are not told her method of creation, but from the above titles it is clear that in her own cycle of tradition Ninkhasagga was conceived as fashioning men not only from clay but also from wood, and perhaps as employing metal for the manufacture of her other works of creation. Moreover, in the great God List, where she is referred to under her title Makh, Ninkhasagga is associated with Anu, Enlil, and Enki; she there appears, with her dependent deities, after Enlil and before Enki. We thus have definite proof that her association with the three chief Sumerian gods was widely recognized in the early Sumerian period and dictated her position in the classified pantheon of Babylonia. Apart from this evidence, the important rank assigned her in the historical and legal records and in votive inscriptions,(1) especially in the early period and in Southern Babylonia, accords fully with the part she here plays in the Sumerian Creation myth. Eannatum and Gudea of Lagash both place her immediately after Anu and Enlil, giving her precedence over Enki; and even in the Kassite Kudurru inscriptions of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries, where she is referred to, she takes rank after Enki and before the other gods. In Sumer she was known as "the Mother of the Gods", and she was credited with the power of transferring the kingdom and royal insignia from one king to his successor.

 Her supreme position as a goddess is attested by the relative insignificance of her husband Dunpae, whom she completely overshadows, in which respect she presents a contrast to the goddess Ninlil, Enlil's female counterpart. The early clay figurines found at Nippur and on other sites, representing a goddess suckling a child and clasping one of her breasts, may well be regarded as representing Ninkharsagga and not Ninlil.
 Her sanctuaries were at Kesh and Adab, both in the south, and this fact sufficiently explains her comparative want of influence in Akkad, where the Semitic Ishtar took her place. She does indeed appear in the north during the Sargonic period under her own name, though later she survives in her synonyms of Ninmakh, "the Sublime Lady", and Nintu, "the Lady of Child-bearing". It is under the latter title that Hammurabi refers to her in his Code of Laws, where she is tenth in a series of eleven deities. But as Goddess of Birth she retained only a pale reflection of her original cosmic character, and her functions were gradually specialized.(1) From a consideration of their characters, as revealed by independent sources of evidence, we thus obtain the reason for the co-operation of four deities in the Sumerian Creation. In fact the new text illustrates a well-known principle in the development of myth, the reconciliation of the rival claims of deities, whose cults, once isolated, had been brought from political causes into contact with each other. In this aspect myth is the medium through which a working pantheon is evolved. Naturally all the deities concerned cannot continue to play their original parts in detail.
 In the Babylonian Epic of Creation, where a single deity, and not a very prominent one, was to be raised to pre-eminent rank, the problem was simple enough. He could retain his own qualities and achievements while borrowing those of any former rival. In the Sumerian text we have the result of a far more delicate process of adjustment, and it is possible that the brevity of the text is here not entirely due to compression of a longer narrative, but may in part be regarded as evidence of early combination. As a result of the association of several competing deities in the work of creation, a tendency may be traced to avoid discrimination between rival claims. Thus it is that the assembled gods, the pantheon as a whole, are regarded as collectively responsible for the creation of the universe. It may be added that this use of ilâni, "the gods", forms an interesting linguistic parallel to the plural of the Hebrew divine title Elohim.

 It will be remembered that in the Sumerian Version the account of Creation is not given in full, only such episodes being included as were directly related to the Deluge story. No doubt the selection of men and animals was suggested by their subsequent rescue from the Flood; and emphasis was purposely laid on the creation of the niggilma because of the part it played in securing mankind's survival. Even so, we noted one striking parallel between the Sumerian Version and that of the Semitic Babylonians, in the reason both give for man's creation. But in the former there is no attempt to explain how the universe itself had come into being, and the existence of the earth is presupposed at the moment when Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninkharsagga undertake the creation of man. The Semitic-Babylonian Version, on the other hand, is mainly occupied with events that led up to the acts of creation, and it concerns our problem to inquire how far those episodes were of Semitic and how far of Sumerian origin. A further question arises as to whether some strands of the narrative may not at one time have existed in Sumerian form independently of the Creation myth.

 The statement is sometimes made that there is no reason to assume a Sumerian original for the Semitic-Babylonian Version, as recorded on "the Seven Tablets of Creation";(1) and this remark, though true of that version as a whole, needs some qualification. The composite nature of the poem has long been recognized, and an analysis of the text has shown that no less than five principal strands have been combined for its formation.
 These consist of (i) The Birth of the Gods; (ii) The Legend of Ea and Apsû; (iii) The principal Dragon Myth; (iv) The actual account of Creation; and (v) the Hymn to Marduk under his fifty titles.(2) The Assyrian commentaries to the Hymn, from which considerable portions of its text are restored, quote throughout a Sumerian original, and explain it word for word by the phrases of the Semitic Version;(3) so that for one out of the Seven Tablets a Semitic origin is at once disproved. Moreover, the majority of the fifty titles, even in the forms in which they have reached us in the Semitic text, are demonstrably Sumerian, and since many of them celebrate details of their owner's creative work, a Sumerian original for other parts of the version is implied. Enlil and Ea are both represented as bestowing their own names upon Marduk,(4) and we may assume that many of the fifty titles were originally borne by Enlil as a Sumerian Creator.(5) Thus some portions of the actual account of Creation were probably derived from a Sumerian original in which "Father Enlil" figured as the hero.

 For what then were the Semitic Babylonians themselves responsible? It seems to me that, in the "Seven Tablets", we may credit them with considerable ingenuity in the combination of existing myths, but not with their invention. The whole poem in its present form is a glorification of Marduk, the god of Babylon, who is to be given pre-eminent rank among the gods to correspond with the political position recently attained by his city. It would have been quite out of keeping with the national thought to make a break in the tradition, and such a course would not have served the purpose of the Babylonian priesthood, which was to obtain recognition of their claims by the older cult-centres in the country. Hence they chose and combined the more important existing myths, only making such alterations as would fit them to their new hero. Babylon herself


CYRANO DE BERGERAC A Play in Five Acts CONTENTS CYRANO DE BERGERAC Dramatis personae Act I. Scene 1.I.
Scene 1.II.
Scene 1.III.
Scene 1.IV.
Scene 1.V.
Scene 1.VI.
Scene 1.VII.
Act II.
Scene 2.I.
Scene 2.II.
Scene 2.III.
Scene 2.IV.
Scene 2.V.
Scene 2.VI.
Scene 2.VII.
Scene 2.VIII.
Scene 2.IX.
Scene 2.X.
Scene 2.XI.
Act III.
Scene 3.I.
Scene 3.II.
Scene 3.III.
Scene 3.IV.
Scene 3.V.
Scene 3.VI.
Scene 3.VII.
Scene 3.VIII.
Scene 3.IX.
Scene 3.X.
Scene 3.XI.
Scene 3.XII.
ACT IV.
Scene 4.I.
Scene 4.II.
Scene 4.III.
Scene 4.IV.
Scene 4.V.
Scene 4.VI.
Scene 4.VII.
Scene 4.VIII.
Scene 4.IX.
Scene 4.X.
Act V. Scene 5.I.
Scene 5.II.
Scene 5.III.
Scene 5.IV.
Scene 5.V.
Scene 5.VI.
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand This etext was prepared by Sue Asscher CYRANO DE BERGERAC A Play in Five Acts by Edmond Rostand Translated from the French by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard Dramatis personae CYRANO DE BERGERAC CHRISTIAN DE NEUVILLETTE COUNT DE GUICHE RAGUENEAU LE BRET CARBON DE CASTEL-JALOUX THE CADETS LIGNIERE DE VALVERT A MARQUIS SECOND MARQUIS THIRD MARQUIS MONTFLEURY BELLEROSE JODELET CUIGY BRISSAILLE THE DOORKEEPER A LACKEY A SECOND LACKEY A BORE A MUSKETEER ANOTHER A SPANISH OFFICER A PORTER A BURGHER HIS SON A PICKPOCKET A SPECTATOR A GUARDSMAN BERTRAND THE FIFER A MONK TWO MUSICIANS THE POETS THE PASTRY COOKS ROXANE SISTER MARTHA LISE THE BUFFET-GIRL MOTHER MARGUERITE THE DUENNA SISTER CLAIRE AN ACTRESS THE PAGES THE SHOP-GIRL The crowd, troopers, burghers (male and female), marquises, musketeers, pickpockets, pastry-cooks, poets, Gascons cadets, actors (male and female), violinists, pages, children, soldiers, Spaniards, spectators (male and female), precieuses, nuns, etc.
Act I. A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne.
The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance.
The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible.
On both sides of the stage are benches. The curtain is composed of two tapestries which can be drawn aside. Above a harlequin's mantle are the royal arms. There are broad steps from the stage to the hall; on either side of these steps are the places for the violinists. Footlights.
Two rows, one over the other, of side galleries: the highest divided into boxes. No seats in the pit of the hall, which is the real stage of the theater; at the back of the pit, i.e., on the right foreground, some benches forming steps, and underneath, a staircase which leads to the upper seats. An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.
The entrance to the theater is in the center of the background, under the gallery of the boxes. A large door, half open to let in the spectators. On the panels of this door, in different corners, and over the buffet, red placards bearing the words, 'La Clorise.'
At the rising of the curtain the hall is in semi-darkness, and still empty. The lusters are lowered in the middle of the pit ready to be lighted.
Scene 1.I.
The public, arriving by degrees. Troopers, burghers, lackeys, pages, a pickpocket, the doorkeeper, etc., followed by the marquises. Cuigy, Brissaille, the buffet-girl, the violinists, etc.
(A confusion of loud voices is heard outside the door. A trooper enters hastily.)
THE DOORKEEPER (following him): Hollo! You there! Your money!
THE TROOPER: I enter gratis.
THE DOORKEEPER: Why?
THE TROOPER: Why? I am of the King's Household Cavalry, 'faith!
THE DOORKEEPER (to another trooper who enters): And you?
SECOND TROOPER: I pay nothing.
THE DOORKEEPER: How so?
SECOND TROOPER: I am a musketeer.
FIRST TROOPER (to the second): The play will not begin till two. The pit is empty. Come, a bout with the foils to pass the time.
(They fence with the foils they have brought.)
A LACKEY (entering): Pst...Flanquin...!
ANOTHER (already there): Champagne?...
THE FIRST (showing him cards and dice which he takes from his doublet): See, here be cards and dice.
(He seats himself on the floor): Let's play.
THE SECOND (doing the same): Good; I am with you, villain!
FIRST LACKEY (taking from his pocket a candle-end, which he lights, and sticks on the floor): I made free to provide myself with light at my master's expense!
A GUARDSMAN (to a shop-girl who advances): 'Twas prettily done to come before the lights were lit!
(He takes her round the waist.)
ONE OF THE FENCERS (receiving a thrust): A hit!
ONE OF THE CARD-PLAYERS: Clubs!
THE GUARDSMAN (following the girl): A kiss!
THE SHOP-GIRL (struggling to free herself): They're looking!
THE GUARDSMAN (drawing her to a dark corner): No fear! No one can see!
A MAN (sitting on the ground with others, who have brought their provisions): By coming early, one can eat in comfort.
A BURGHER (conducting his son): Let us sit here, son.
A CARD-PLAYER: Triple ace!
A MAN (taking a bottle from under his cloak, and also seating himself on the floor): A tippler may well quaff his Burgundy (he drinks): in the Burgundy Hotel!
THE BURGHER (to his son): 'Faith! A man might think he had fallen in a bad house here!
(He points with his cane to the drunkard): What with topers!
(One of the fencers in breaking off, jostles him): brawlers!
(He stumbles into the midst of the card-players): gamblers!
THE GUARDSMAN (behind him, still teasing the shop-girl): Come, one kiss!
THE BURGHER (hurriedly pulling his son away): By all the holies! And this, my boy, is the theater where they played Rotrou erewhile.
THE YOUNG MAN: Ay, and Corneille!
A TROOP OF PAGES (hand-in-hand, enter dancing the farandole, and singing):