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Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.

f persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket- office window; the line-up of political factions.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

Lobiped.

An old name for a pilot boat.

Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic.

Affection. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courtship. Bacon.

Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.

The state of being love-sick.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.

Having a curved spine.

A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

ieve, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.

nating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

. See Mal-.

See Malodor.