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late or control; one who governs. The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden.

One who lives in a convent; a monk or num; a recluse. Addison.

iews; conversation; chat. Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing. The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust. Spenser.

right-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A sudden flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

d food at his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful l…

One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.

One who lives in a cottage.

chequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; - - called also counterstock. [Eng.]

A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

est gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak.

er to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense. The covetous person lives as if the world were madealtogether for him, and not he for the world. South.

; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.] Val. 'Tis a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam. Shak.

A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.

child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.