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A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. [Old Slang] Dr. Favour.

imp. of Slee,to slay. Chaucer.

A sleuthhound. [R.]

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

The quality or state of being slow.

Milk sickness.

A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

The yautia.

To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow.

Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.

Kansas; a nickname.

A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow- tailed coat.

One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.

The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

A species of willow.

fficinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.

lants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds. Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. -- Tallow catch, a keech. See Keech. [Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. -- Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the pla…