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A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

Guidance by the hand. [Obs.] Glanvill. South.

One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

yety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. Merrily sing, and sport, and play. Granville.

A Russian village community. D. M. Wallace.

One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch. Addison.

mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.

The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).

Monocular. Glanvill.

One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot. Sir J. Mandeville. Lowell.

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

Nearly; almost; much. [Obs.] "Muchwhat after the same manner." Glanvill.

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

fferent kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing Pope.

A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

Not; never. [Obs.] He never yet no villany ne said. Chaucer.

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.

A notional or groundless opinion. [R.] Glanvill.