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can dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

eemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.

genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

larius phoeniceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

ace, and mended his stories. Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.

Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] Shak.

A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. [Obs.] A continual refrication of the memory. Bp. Hall.

Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.

er bird (Sericulus melinus). The male has the head, neck, and large patches on the wings, bright golden yellow, and the rest of the plumage deep velvety black; -- so called in honor of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.), who was Prince Regent in the reign of George III. -- The Regents of the University of the…

Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.

ken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.] The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright. Spenser.

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. The resplendency of his own almighty goodness. Dr. J. Scott.

Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser.

y large South African antelope (Hippotragus equinus). It has long sharp horns and a stiff bright brown mane. Called also mahnya, equine antelope, and bastard gemsbok.

enance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.

to revolve. Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright. Chaucer. To roll one's self, to wallow. -- To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

ry shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.

Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

es; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected…

apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. sambucifolia).