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A small gondola. T. Moore.

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

A small drain.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

See Gondola. Marston.

A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. Knight.

small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

Confined to a hamlet. Feltham.

See Haslet.

e edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

A little heart.

A small herb. Shak.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.

A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

A homilist.