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A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Same as Lief.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

To move. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Miniver.

To believe erroneously, or in a false religion. "That misbelieving Moor." Shak.

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To move. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A nævus. [Obs.] Dryden.

The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.

To name; to mention; to utter. [Obs.] As oft I heard my lord them neven. Chaucer.

Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope.

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

Nevertheless. [Obs.]

in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

Nephew. [Obs.] haucer.

Failure or lack of development.