siness.

Li-ba'tion. A sacrifice by pouring out wine.

Licu-ten'ant. An officer second in rank; a deputy.

Logic. Science and art of reasoning. Lu-gu'bri-ous, Sad; mournful; doleful.

Lus-tra'tion. Purification by expiatory offering.

Mag-na-nim'i ty. Greatness of mind; generosity. Mag-net'ic needle. A needle affected with magnetism, and having the property of pointing toward the north. Mam mon. Riches; the god of riches. Man'i-ple. A small body of soldiers among the Romans.

Ma-neu'vre. A dexterous movement; a stratagem.

Mar'i-time (-tim). Pertaining to the

sca.

Marti-net. One very precise in discipline.

Mar-tyr-ol'o-gy. History of martyrs. Mel-litlu-ous. Flowing sweetly, as with honey.

thread made like rope by twisting several strands into one thread, Or'i-flamme. The ancient royal stand ard of France.

Pal'a-din. A knight errant.

Pa-la'ver (-lah-). Idle talk; conference. Pan-e-gy'ric. A laudatory specch; a eulogy.

Par'a-dox. A statement which, although true, appears to be absurd. Par'a-site. A flatterer; a hanger-on; a sycophant.

Par lia-ment. The legislature of Great Britain, consisting of Lords and Com

mons.

Par'ox-ysm. A spasm or fit. Par'si-mo-ny. Penuriousness; excessive desire to save or spare expense. Pa-ter'nal. Pertaining to a father. Pa-thetic. Exciting emotion; affecting with sadness.

Pau'ci-ty. Fewness; smallness of number or quantity.

Peag, or Wam'pum. A string of shells used by the North American

Indians for money, and worn as a belt. Ped'es-tal. The base of a pillar or

statue.

Min'a-ret. A slender and lofty turret; the spire of a mosque. Min'i-ver. The fine white fur of the ermine.

Mira-cle. A wonderful event; an occurrence at variance with the established laws of nature.

Miz'zen (nautical). Hindmost. Mon'as-ter-y. A home for religious re

tirement; an abbey or convent. Mosque (mosk). A Mohammedan temple. Mu-nic'i-pal. Belonging to a corporation or city. Mu-ta-bil'i-ty. Liability to change; inconstancy.

Mu-ti-neer'. One who commits mutiny. Mu'ti-ny. A revolt in the navy or army. Mys'ti-cal. Obscure; unintelligible. Myth-ol'o-gy. A history of the ancient fables, including those relating to the heathen deities.

lessness.

Per-sim'mon. A small tree, bearing a plum-like fruit, somewhat astringent in flavor, but rendered sweet by the frost. Phalanx. A compact body of infantry. Phe-nom'e-non (Plural -na). An ap

pearance; anything remarkable. Phleg-mat'ic. Dull; cold; abounding in phlegm (flem).

Pi-que blanc (pe-ka'blawng). White quilted stuff (French).

Pla-teau' (plah-to'). A lofty plain; a table-land.

Plau'si-ble. Having a truthful appear

ance.

Plight. To pledge; to give as surety. Po-lem'ic. Involving a dispute or discussion; controversial. Por'ti-co. A series of columns; a porch.

Pos-ter'i-ty. Descendants; succeeding generations.

Po ten tate. One invested with great power; a prince or sovereign. Præ'tor. A Roman magistrate; a kind of judge.

Pre'am-ble. An introduction, or preface.

Pre-ca'ri-ous. Uncertain: depending

on another's will. Pred'a-to-ry. Subsisting on rapine or plunder. One who precedes

Pred-e-ces'sor. another in an office. Pre-des'tine. To decree or appoint beforehand. Pre-dom'i-nance. ence; prevalence.

Superior influ.

Pre-em'i-nence. Superiority in rank priority.

Pre'fect. A governor; a commander. Preg'nant. Fruitful; full.

Pre-ma-ture'. Ripe before the time; too early; unseasonable. Pre'sage.

Something that foreshows what is to occur; an omen. Pre-sent'i-ment. A notion of what is about to occur. Pri-me'val. Original; first. Proc-la-ma'tion. A public announce. ment; an edict.

Pro-con'sul. The governor of a province among the Romans. Prog-nos'tic.

Foreshowing: PROG

A high and rocky

NOSTICS, signs. Prom'on-to-ry. cape. Pro-pri'e-ta-ry. A possessor in his own right; an owner. Pro-scribe'.

To set down as con

demned; to outlaw. Prot'est-ant. Protesting against the decree of the Diet of Spires in 1529; opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Prov'ince. A country subject to a

foreign government. Prox-im'i-ty. Nearness; being adja

Sat'el-lite. A small planet revolving round a large one.

Se-di'tious. Disposed to rebellion; factions.

Sep'ul-ture. Burial.

Serge. A coarse woollen stuff.
Ser'ried. Close; compact; crowded.
Shal'lop. A boat with two masts.
Si-mul-ta'ne-ous. Existing or occur-
ring at the same time.

Spec'tre. An apparition an illusive appearance; a ghost.

Spon-ta'ne-ous. Acting without cxternal force, voluntary. Spuʼri-ous. Not genuine; counterfeit. Squad'ron. A body of troops; a division of a fleet.

Stern'fast. The rope attached to the

stern of a vessel in order to secure it. Sto'i-cism. Insensibility to pain; the system of Zeno, the stoic.

Sty'lus. A sharp-pointed instrument used by the ancients for writing on waxen tablets.

Sua vi-ty. Sweetness: mildness. Sub-or-di-na'tion. Subjection; inferiority of rank.

Sub-orn'. To procure to take a false

oath.

Sub-side'. To settle down into a quiet

state.

Sub'si-dy. Aid in money. Su-per-nat'u-ral. Beyond what is nat ural; contrary to the laws of nature. Su-prem'a-cy. The highest rank and authority. Suspicious

Sur-veillance (väl'yans). watch.

Sweep. A long oar.

Syc'o-phant. A mean flatterer a parasite.

Symptom. A sign or toker

Tam'bour. A kind of embroidery; the frame for such work. Tap'es-try. Woven hangings, sometimes ornamented with figures. "ar-paul'in. Canvas tarred; a sailor's tarred hat.

Tartan. A kind of cloth of various colors.

Te Deum. A hymn of thanksgiving, so named from the first two words. Ter-ra'que-ous. Consisting of land

and water.

The o-ry. A supposition; exposition of the principles of a subject.

Ti-a'ra. A crown; a diadem, or headdress.

Toc'sin. An alarm-bell. Tol-er a'tion. Permission given for freedom of worship.

Tra-di'tion. That which is handed down by oral communication. Tran'sept. A cross aisle in a church. Tri-um vir-ate. An association of three men.

Trou'ba-dour. A poet and musician
in France during the middle ages.
Truncheon. An officer's staff.
Ty-pog'ra-phy. The art of printing.
Ty ran'ni-cide. One who kills a tyrant.

Agincourt (ad-jin-kōr), a village in the
northern part of France.
Albuera (al-bwa'rah), a town in the
southwestern part of Spain.
Alexandria, a seaport in the northern
part of Egypt, founded by Alexander |
the Great.

Amsterdam, a noted seaport, the
largest and most important city of Hol-
land.

Anatolia (an-ah-to'le-ah), a name some-
times given to Asia Minor.
Anjou (awng'joo), an old province in the
western part of France.
Antwerp (ant' werp), a noted city of Bel-
gium on the Scheldt River.
Armenia (ar-me'ni-a), a mountainous

country now forming the northern part
of Asiatic Turkey.

Athelney (ath'el-ney), a small tract of
land in the western part of England,
formerly an island.

Athens (ath'ens), the capital of Greece;
in ancient times the capital of Attica,
and the most celebrated city in all
Greece. Its seaport was Piræus.
Ayr (air), a seaport town in the south-
western part of Scotland.

Babylon (bab'y-lon), the ancient capital
of the Assyrian empire, situated on the
Euphrates River.
Balaklava (bah-lah-klah'vah), a town
of Russia, on the Black Sea.
Bannockburn (ban'nock-burn), a town
in the southern part of Scotland, on
the Bannock River, a branch of the
Forth.

Barbary (bar'ba-ry), an extensive re-
gion forming nearly all the northern
part of Africa,

Benares (ben-ah'rez), a large city of Hin-
dostan, on the Ganges.
Beresina (ber-e-ze'nah), a river in the
western part of Russia, tributary to the
Dnieper.

Bla'densburg, a village of Maryland,
six miles northeast of Washington.

ria, on the Danube River.

Blois (blwah), an ancient city of France,
on the Loire River.

Bombay (bom-bay'), a large seaport,

capital of the presidency of Bombay, in
the western part of Hindostan.
Brus'sels, an important city of Europe,
capital of Belgium.

Cadiz (kaʼdiz), a seaport in the southern
part of Spain.

Calais (kalis), a seaport in France on the
Strait of Dover.

Calcut'ta, a large city in the northeast-
ern part of Hindostan, the capital of
British India.

Cambridge, a city of Massachusetts,
near Boston, the seat of Harvard Uni-
versity.

Canary Isles, a group of islands in the
Atlantic Ocean, about sixty miles from
the west coast of Africa.

Cannæ (kan'ne), an ancient town in the
southeastern part of Italy. The field
of Cannæ is still called the "Field of
Blood.'

Canterbury, a city and county in the
southeastern part of England.

Capreæ (cap're-a), an island of Italy, at
the entrance of the Bay of Naples, now
called Capri.

Carnat'ic, formerly a subdivision of In-
dia, extending along the castern coast.
Carthage, a famous city of the ancient

world, situated on the northern coast
of Africa, near the present site of Tunis.
Castile (kas-teel'), a former kingdom of
Spain, occupying all the central part
of the peninsula.
Cathay', the name by which China was
formerly known to Europeans.
Caxamalca, a city of ancient Peru.
Chalons (shah-long), a city on the Marne

River, about ninety miles east from
Paris.

Champagne (sham-pahn"), an old prov
ince in the eastern part of France.
Charlestown, a city of Massachusetts,
near Boston.

Chios (ki'os), an island off the western coast of Asia Minor. Its modern name is Scio (shee'o). Cipango (che-pan'go), an island spoken of by Marco Polo, probably one of the Japan Islands.

Clermont (klare-mong'), a city in the southern part of France. Cologne (ko-lone'), a city in the western part of Prussia.

Corinth, a celebrated city of Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth, in ancient times noted for its commerce and wealth.

Crecy (kres'se), a town in the northern part of France. Cullo'den, a moor in the northeastern part of Scotland, a few miles from In

verness.

Cumberland, the most northwest

county of England, noted for its picturesque scenery. Cuzco (koos ko), a city of Peru, once the capital of the empire and the residence

of the incas; supposed to be the most ancient of the Peruvian cities.

Darien (da-re-en'), a former province of

South Americe, bordering on the Isthmus of Darien.

Dartmouth, a seaport of England, near the English Channel.

Delft Haven (delf), a town and harbor of Holland.

Dunbar (don-bar'), a seaport town of Scotland, at the mouth of the Frith of Forth.

Elba, an island of Italy, near the Tuscan coast.

Falkirk (fawl-kirk'), a town and parish

of Scotland, about twenty-five miles west of Edinburgh. Flanders, a former country of Europe, now included in Belgium, Holland, and France.

Flod'den, a hill in Northumberland County, England, noted for the battle fought around its base in 1513. Fotheringay a parish in Northampton

County, in the central part of England. Friesland (frees'lant), a province in Holland, on the north side of the Zuyder Zee.

Galata (gah'lah-tah), a suburb of Constantinople.

Garonne, a large river of France, flow

ing into the Gironde, a tributary to the Bay of Biscay.

Genoa, a city of Northern Italy, once a
famous republic.
Glastonbury, an ancient town in the
southwest of England, noted for its ab-
bey, which is said to have been founded
in 60 A.D.

Gomera (go-ma'rah), one of the Canary
Islands.
Gravesend, a town in the southeastern

part of England, on the Thames,
twenty miles east from London.

Iax'artes, a river of Independent Toorkistan, Tributary to the Sea of Aral; now Sir Daria.

Iceland a large island in the Atlantic Ocean, between Europe and North America.

'ium the ancient name of the city of Troy, in Asia Minor.

India a large country in the southern part of Asia, deriving its name from its great river, the Indus.

Ivry (eev're), a small town in the northern Lart of France.

Jamestown a former town of Virginia,

on the James River, noted as the first settlement.

Java (jah'rah), a large island in the Malay Archipelago, near the northern coast of Asia.

Jerusalem a famous city of Palestine, between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

Kent a county in the southeastern part of England.

Lan'ark an ancient horough and town
of Scotland, thirty miles southwest of
Edinburgh.
Lieuwarden (loo'war-den), a town of
Holland, seventy miles northeast of
Amsterdam.

Leyden (li'den), an important city of Holland, about seventeen miles southwest of Amsterdam.

Lochlev'in a small lake in the eastern

part of Scotland, on one of the islands in which stood the castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. It is now in ruins.

Lodi (lo' dee), a city of Lombardy in the north of Italy, on the Adda River. Lorraine (lor-rane'), a former extensive province in the eastern part of France.

Lucerne (lu-sern'). a canton in the central part of Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Lucerne.

Madras (mah-dras'), a maritime city on the western coast of Hindostan. Malta (mail'tah), a noted island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily. It belongs to the British.