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A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava.

In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.

are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird.

A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages. Bryant.

The American golden-eye.

The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.

A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, In a withewyndes wise ybounden about. Piers Plowman.

Same as Withvine.

The act or process of making yellow. Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given. G. Eliot.

Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements. -- n.

with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

h and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.

have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.