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A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. Shak.

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.

izing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United S…

The van; the front. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure. -- The forks of a river or a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.

A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four- in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four- in-hand coach. -- n.

sed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the…

Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.

minution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely. The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. Dryden. The diapason closing full in man. Dryden. Full in the center of the sacred wood. Addison.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and…

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys.

To gape,; to yawn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

To yawn; to gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. Swift.

A fit of yawning.