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n. The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple. -- Ba"by*ish*ly, adv. -- Ba"by*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being a baby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A babyish manner of acting or speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. [ 1913 Webster ]

A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a boyish manner; like a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners or behavior of a boy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Boyhood. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat coy or reserved. Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dandy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dowdy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. being somewhat early. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles and conduct of a fogy. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gypsyism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. somewhat gray.
Syn. -- grayish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. 1. The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of a gypsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. hautboïste. ] A player on the hautboy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of jockeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Frolicsome; sportive. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ from Senator Joseph McCarthy, who repeatedly asserted without evidence that numerous communists were present in the United States government. ] Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Devotion to party. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat pretty. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. [ R. ] Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a puppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ch. of Eng.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated “ Tracts for the Times;” tractarianism. See Tractarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Puseyism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the conduct of a rowdy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being shoddy. [ Colloq. ] See the Note under Shoddy, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act or business of spying. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles of the Tories. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Sportive; trifling; wanton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling a toy. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Toy"ish*ly, adv. -- Toy"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Eccl.) The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state. [ 1913 Webster ]