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A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

anners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for). [Obs.] They anhele . . . for the fruit of our convocation. Latimer.

Short of breath; panting.

The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

dle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

ndage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

o April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…