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Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage.

Same as Octant, 2. [R.]

Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

One who deals in oils.

The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

Homiletical. [Obs.]

At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.

Excessively subtile.

See Ovine.

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

A lampooner. [R.] Burton.

oad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

The redshank; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]

Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

See Pantile.

, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6.