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word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. Walpole.

To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion. Livingstone.

rparty.] I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

Made of quickset. Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges. Walpole.

A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

(or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coördinates. See Coördinate, n.

The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n. Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton.

To recognize. [Obs.] Sir H. Walpole.

enchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that Walpole.

One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.

A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.

See Ridgepole.

- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

vel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] Pope. "Riveled parchments." Walpole.

A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. Gay.

romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. A very brave officer, but apt to romance. Walpole.

A measure of five and a half yards in length; a red; a perch; a pole. [Prov.Eng.]