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A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.

To pull; to pluck. [Obs.] To ease the pain, His tugged cars suffered with a strain. Hudibras.

to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras.

A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle. Hudibras.

tion expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Not having a ring, as in the nose. "Pigs unringed." Hudibras.

hat is, without seeing it. For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. Hudibras. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." Spectator.

e mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.

A yellow urinary pigment, considered by Thudichum as the only pigment present in normal urine. It is regarded by Maly as identical with urobilin.

What the vengeance, what! -- emphatically. [Obs.] "But what a vengeance makes thee fly!" Hudibras. "What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair" Shak. -- With a vengeance, with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance. [Colloq.]

om. A certain man drew a bow at a venture. 1 Kings xxii. 34. A bargain at a venture made. Hudibras.

Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings. You are my prisoners, base vermin. Hudibras.

Cavilous litigation; cavillation. [Obs.] Hudibras.

tage in position. To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws. Hudibras. -- Weather helm (Naut.), a tendency on the part of a sailing vessel to come up into the wind, rendering it necessary to put the helm up, that is, toward the weather side. -- Weather shore (Naut.), the shore to the windw…

lso Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix. Hudsonian or, Eskimo, whimbreal, the Hudsonian curlew.

udden conclusive happening. [Obs.] When the church Was taken with a why-not in the lurch. Hudibras. This game . . . was like to have been lost with a why-not. Nugæ Antiq.

illet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew. Carolina willet, the Hudsonian godwit.

A window. [Obs.] Hudibras.

uivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring Hudibras.

small hole. Fuller. Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over. Hudibras.