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A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.

The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.…

See Phoebe.

See Phoenician.

An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches."

nally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak. Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden.

A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.

To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. Pope.

shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

A low shoe with a thin sole. Swift.

(a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii.

letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian. Etymologically, q or qu is most nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. what; L. aquila, E. eaqle; E…

That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.

A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]

A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.