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An oily composition used to make the hair glossy.

In a brilliant manner.

Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

See Buhrstone.

A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

The private audience chamber of a king.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

To chant; to recite with musical tones. M. Stuart.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

ute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.