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A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]

A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.

Millionaire.

An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

ouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces. Moire antique, a superior kind of thick moire.

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires.

A deep flaring cuff.

A woman's glove with a long, loosely fitting wrist.

Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.

To hire out. [Obs.] Spenser.

To tire to excess; to exhaust.

One who impairs. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.