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utritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

funeral games played at new returning light. Dryden. The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. Milton.

To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." Shak.

The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. "The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim." Milton. (b) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The larvæ are bright-colored, and some of the species, as Eudryas grata, and E. unio, feed on the leaves of the grap…

Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing states. [Written also sax.]