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One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.

The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad. Leveling instrument. See…

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

In a lolling manner. Buckle.

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

In a lulling manner; soothingly.

A farm. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

A little man. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e

The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.

Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.

The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner. Marshaling of assets (Law), the arranging or ranking of assets in due order of administration.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Meddlesome. Macaulay.

In a meddling manner.