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living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.

A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]

l of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

ngmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.

To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class. North Am. Rev.

The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.

to refer; -- with to. Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. Bacon.

Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.

To mark out. [Obs.] R. North.

as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe. At length corruption, like a general fldeluge all. Pope.

One versed in demonology. R. North.

One who detracts; a detractor. Other detracters and malicious writers. Sir T. North.

England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

Dishonor. [Obs.] To the disglory of God's name. Northbrooke.

d dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.

To deprive of membership. [Obs.] They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North.

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread. The northern wind his wings did broad display. Spenser.

eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. -- Lunar distance. See under Lunar. -- North polar distance (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. -- Zenith distance (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith…

ral presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.