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A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.

ference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinning…

Not filled with din.

That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.

Deprived of the foreskin; circumcised. [R.] Milton.

The quality or state of being vain.

Prov. Eng.] -- Vin"newed*ness, n. [Obs.] Many of Chaucer's words are become, as it were, vinnewed and hoary with over-long lying. F. Beaumont.

Vinnewed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The water spider.

To whinny. [Colloq.]

e ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh. "The stately horse . . . stooped with a low whinny." Tennyson.

The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

ke Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.

One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address. "Each mild and winning note." Keble.

In a winning manner.