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Act of entering; entrance. Sir K. Digby.

Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.

The act of going in; entrance. Blount.

A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

The Cornish chough. See under Chough. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.

A kind of loaded die. [Obs.]

. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.

Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. Walpole. Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

See Mauger.

In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.

To defy. [Obs.] J. Webster.

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.

Poorly; thinly.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

r S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.

To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

See Mongrel.