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A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

A dark green pigment found in small quantity in human gallstones.

A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." Sterne.

A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis.

One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

le. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon birds. -- Bird mite (Zoöl.), a small mite (genera Dermanyssus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- B…

A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.

A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

g, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.

anything, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.