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eighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

e surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

arth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

ear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. "Deep himself beducked." Spenser.

of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in

of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation. Hooker. Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.

One versed in belleslettres.

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

Accomplished; versed. [Archaic] Spenser.

To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.

To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.