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Without slumber; sleepless.

Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope.

Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Slumberous. Keats.

The impure residue, consisting of cocoons, propolis, etc., remaining after the wax is extracted from honeycombs.

Visiting slums.

The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

See Stylet, 2.

A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.

Same as Spicule.

A genus of common motile microörganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.

The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.

Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.

Somewhat glumaceous.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.

The lower opercular bone in fishes.

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.

rm intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares. Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he can not make it sta…