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To sound forth by buzzing. Shak.

Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.

Captive; wretched; unfortunate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

recall; to summon back. -- To call down, to pray for, as blessing or curses. -- To call forth, to bring or summon to action; as, to call forth all the faculties of the mind. -- To call in, (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent coin. (b) To summon to o…

To bring forth a calf. "Their cow calveth." Job xxi. 10.

White. [Obs.] The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden.

g ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]

Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc. No previous canvass was made for me. Burke.

To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]

formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak.

take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort. Her heart is like some fortress that has been captured. W. Ivring.

eping car, Parior caretc. , (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

ards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. -- Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divid…

dinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.

A fast of forty days on bread and water. [Obs.]

of conveys, as: (a) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort. (b) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage. (c) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part. (d) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported;…