" "She means 'fragrance,'" suggested Beth.

I incline to suppose that Shelley means 'unseen'; not so much that the lightning is itself unseen as that its action in fusing the sword, which remains concealed within the sheath, is unseen.

Details reached the outer world on September 10th from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) as follows, the story being that of an eyewitness: "The commencement of the fighting which resulted in the capture of Lemberg began August 29th, when the Russians drove the enemy from Zisczow (forty-five miles east of Lemberg) and moved on to Golaya Gorkaa name which means 'the naked hill.'

" "Don't be discouraged, lad; a woman's 'no' generally means 'yes'," said his Chief.

"That means 'look out,' plain enuff, don't it?" asked Jerry.

That means 'I'll put myself in pawn to you as your slave to serve you as you will for a specified time.'

where the original is certainly referring to the powers of nature, and means 'who maketh the winds his messengers and a flame of fire his minister;' with the very same sounds we have a complete inversion of the sense.

"Paso Robles means 'Pass of the Oaks,'" said Nick, as they came into a stretch of billowing country where immense trees shadowed the summer gold of meadows.

From this his name was derived, which means, taken literally, 'Lake of Fat;' by extension, however, the word means 'Sea-Foam,' as in the Qquichua language the foam is called fat, no doubt on account of its whiteness.

The word 'negro' means 'black.'

Then"he was fiddling with the scraps and finally fitted two together"why, look here, this one with 'lane' on it fits over the one about throwing over, and it says 'poor f' where its torn; that means 'poor fool,' I s'poseme, or 'fathead,' or something like that.

War in her memory means '76.

In modern times these great canoes were built in Bora-Bora, the island the Hawaiians say they came from, and the name of which means 'Land of the Big House Canoes.'

"The pretty part of the flower is the corolla which means 'little crown,' and each of its parts is called a petal.

It means 'blow,' 'Expiravit' is 'have blown.'

"The family-name of this tree is Salix, from a word that means 'to spring,' because a willow-branch, if planted, will take root and grow so quickly that it seems almost like magic. '

FOOTNOTES: M. Duponceau adduces the following examples: "In the Arancanian language the word 'idnancloclavin' means 'I do not wish to eat with him.'

It means 'good for nothing.'

But what a deplorable catastrophe!what a dire calamity!what an ironical mishap!' 'She means' began Mr. Purdie, noting his nephew's puzzled distress.

Cieza de Leon calls Pachacamac 'a devil,' whose name means 'creator of the world'!

"[102] CONSTRUE, CONSTRUCT."To construe means 'to interpret,' 'to show the meaning;' to construct means 'to build;' we may construe a sentence as in translation, or construct it as in composition.

In the sense of "sure" it is in colloquial, but not in literary, use. CONTINUAL, CONTINUOUS."Continual is used of frequently repeated acts, as, 'Continual dropping wears away a stone;' continuous, of uninterrupted action, as, 'the continuous flowing of a river.'" DEADLY, DEATHLY."Deathly, in the sense of 'resembling death,' as, 'She was deathly pale,' is preferable to deadly, since deadly also means 'inflicting death.'

The word prétendu is commonly used alone, and then means 'intended.'

Distinguer sometimes means 'to examine with a view to marriage.'

The idiom n'avoir garde de means 'to be unable' or 'to be far from' (Littré, "garde." 7°).