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a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning.

See Carl.

A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

A knavish woman. Carlyle.

strip of zinc in lead acetate. -- Mock lead, a miner's term for blende. -- Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. -- Red lead ore (Min.), crocoi…

To depart; to set out. [Colloq.] By the time I left for Scotland. Carlyle.

Lawful. "Licit establishments." Carlyle. -- Lic"it*ly, adv. -- Lic"it*ness, n.

r punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter. [Colloq. or Low] Carlyle. Thackeray.

alium circæzans and G. lanceolatum). (c) The leguminous climber Abrus precatorius, whose scarlet and black seeds are called black-eyed Susans. Its roots are used as a substitute for those of true licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra).

State of being a lion. Carlyle.

d looks. Locke. There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this. Carlyle.

cales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail. Gay.

An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle.

Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

nectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

se worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.