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The American golden plover.

walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover. The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. Bacon. One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.

One who receives a stipend. If thou art become A tyrant's vile stipendiary. Glover.

The ring plover, or dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]

navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.

A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.

To woo; to pay addresses as a lover. Massinger.

Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney.

of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach. Surf bird (Zoöl.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone. -- Surf clam (Zoöl.), a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra. -- Surf duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species…

ine, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell. Glover's suture, Harmonic suture, etc. See under Glover, Harmonic, etc.

A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak. Blest swains! whose nymphs in every grace excel. Pope.

The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Swallow plover (Zoöl.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as G. orientalis of India; a pratincole. -- Swallow shrike (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family…

A lover of mistress.

quacious. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.

The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

(by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. -- Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deli…

A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.