Chapter XXVII · (_continued_)

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the state of being absent

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

anew

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

an expert or collector of antiquities

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

come into existence; take on form or shape

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

confined by bonds

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a university in England

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

A soft white limestone used for marking doors, stone walls, and slate.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

English architect (1723-1796)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the body of faculty and students of a college

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

within the realm of possibility

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

bend one's back forward from the waist on down

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “dane” — a native or inhabitant of Denmark

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

possessive form of “defoe” — English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

an urgent or peremptory request

From this reading That is a small thing to demand.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “dimension” — the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

plural of “doubt” — the state of being unsure of something

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

set up or found

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

inflected form of “give” — cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

throw a glance at; take a brief look at

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

coins made of gold

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “gray” — a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “group” — any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

only a very short time before

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

not causing or capable of causing harm

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

of comparatively great physical weight or density

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

give help or assistance; be of service

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

favorable to life and growth

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a definite length of time marked off by two instants

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

past form of “intervene” — get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading That is a small thing to demand.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

apprehended with certainty

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

has a good chance of being the case or of coming about

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “mine” — excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

filled or abounding with fog or mist

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “morning” — the time period between dawn and noon

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “motor” — machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

disregarded

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

not any; not one

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “opinion” — a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the act of orienting

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

-ing form of “overhang” — project over

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

someone who writes plays

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

a humble request for help from someone in authority

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

capable of happening or existing

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the possibility of future success

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

strange in an interesting or pleasing way

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “refuge” — a safe place

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

any object that is left unused or still extant

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

third-person singular of “rhapsodize” — recite a rhapsody

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a partly sheltered anchorage

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Identical; not different.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

act as a barrier between; stand between

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

similar things placed in order or happening one after another

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

plural of “shaft” — a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

explained or answered

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

an idea that is suggested

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

tending to suggest or imply

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

required or under orders

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

carry out

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading That is a small thing to demand.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

from that place or that time

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a special situation

From this reading That is a small thing to demand.

plural of “think” — an instance of deliberate thinking

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

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From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

up to a particular time

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “title” — a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

an industrial city in western France on the Loire River

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

create by training and teaching

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Now doubts arise, and I hover between two opinions.

a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

precisely as stated

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Dinner and rest are supposed to have intervened before we carry on our little tour or series of tours.

the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

which person or people

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

in the company of; together with

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.

a late time of life

From this reading A playwright thinks nothing of an interval of years between two acts.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prospect--Billericay--Origin of name an enigma--Arthur Young on the country and roads--Same roads to-day--Effect of heavy motors--A plea for overhanging trees--Horndon on the Hill--Langdon Hill a fine view--Arthur Young rhapsodizes--Defoe at Chadwell--Little Thurrock--Hangman's Wood or Hairyman's Wood?--If the latter, possible connection with Peter the Wild Man--His story--Defoe's interest in him--The "Dene-holes"--An antiquary who gave no help--Enigmas not solved by designatory titles--The shafts--The groups of chambers--Dimensions--Uniformity of shape--Groups all separate--Absence of Orientation--Known to Camden--Neglected till 1884 and 1887, then again--No suggestive remains found--Cannot be chalk wells--Hardly flint mines as at Brandon--Legend of "King Cunobelin's Gold Mines"--Conceivably granaries--Not very likely--Why not refuges from the Danes, small at first and enlarged later?--Harmless speculation at any rate--Suggestion for return to Colchester--To Clacton by motor-boat, thence by train--Take glance at Burnham on Crouch--Quaint and hospitable.