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In a low condition; meanly. I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught. Shak.

Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled. Mango bird (Zoöl.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. -- Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April…

on her perch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

it, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened. [Written also matress.]

A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.

Fed; fattened. [Obs.] Tusser.

coration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]…

A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.

See Muscatel, n. Quaffed off the muscadel. Shak.

he region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy. [Written also Muscogees.]

, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.

ch is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi. 26. Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. None of their productions are extant. Blair.

A pond where fish are fed. Walton.

A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.