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of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.

from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

ding node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] "Dracontic month." Crabb.

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]

ight; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. Abbott. Droit d'aubaine. See under Aubaine. -- Droits of the Admiralty (Eng. Law), rights or perquisites of the Admiralty, arising from seizure of an enemy's ships in port on the breaking out of war, or those coming into port in…

ty of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mi…

A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.

and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

conomy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. B. Jonson. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

A glazier's diamond. Crabb.

An abbreviation for electro-motive force.

Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject." Clarendon. -- To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

(a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preëmption. [U.S.] Abbott.

ain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.