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The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn. Michaelmas daisy. (Bot.) See under Daisy.

One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc. [Obs.] Shak.

Theft; cheating. [Obs.] Gower.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

A composition consisting of one verse only.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

lar position, literal or figurative. Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed. Evelun.

Placed in a niche. "Those niched shapes of noble mold." Tennyson.

A person newly rich.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

A poem of eight lines. [Obs.] Selden

Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass. Maunder.

but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone. Hitchcock.

The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock.

A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

A small landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ounaniche) of Lake St. John, Canada, and neighboring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.