A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

by the disciples of Calvin. They were treated with great rigor by the Government, and many of them left the kingdom and settled in Holland. Finding themselves not so eligibly situated in that Country, as they had expected to be, a portion of them embarked for America, and were the first settlers of New England. _Quixotic_, absurd, romantic, ridiculous; from _Don Quixote_, the hero of a celebrated fictitious work, written by Cervantes, a distinguished Spanish writer, and intended to reform the tastes and opinions of his countrymen. _Reeking_, smoking, emitting vapor. _Residuum_, the remainder, or part which remains. _Routine_, a round, or course of engagements, business, pleasure, &c. To _Run_ a seam, to lay the two edges of a seam together, and pass the threaded needle out and in, with small stitches, a few threads below the edge, and on a line with it. To _Run_ a stocking, to pass a thread of yarn, with a needle, straight along each row of the stocking, as far as is desired, taking up one loop and missing two or three, until the row is completed, so as to double the thickness at the part which is run. _Sabbatical year_, every seventh year, among the Jews, which was a year of rest for the land, when it was to be left without culture. In this year, all debts were to be remitted, and slaves set at liberty. See Exodus xxi. 2, xxiii. 10, Leviticus xxv. 2, 3, &c., Deuteronomy xv. 12, and other similar passages. _Sal æratus_, see _Pearlash_. _Sal ammoniac_, a salt, called also muriate of ammonia, which derives its name from a district in Libya, Egypt, where there was a temple of Jupiter Ammon, and where this salt was found. _Scotch Highlanders_, inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland. _Selvedge_, the edge of cloth, a border. Improperly written _selvage_. _Service-book_, a book prescribing the order of public services in a church or congregation. _Sharps_, see _Blunts_. _Shorts_, the coarser part of wheat bran. _Shrubbery_, a plantation of shrubs. _Siberia_, a large country in the extreme northern part of Asia, having the Frozen