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Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct." Cowley.

et, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

rner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

espect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

tual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. Prodigals lately come from swine keeping, from eating draff and husks. Shak. The draff and offal of a bygone age. Buckle. Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt. Tennyson.

A squirrel's nest. Cowper.

And dreamt the future fight. Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed. Cowper. To dream away, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours" Dryden.

A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle. Cowell. Burrill.

landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.

A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. Shak.

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

cal courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the d…

flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." Cowper.

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

s is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

A list of jurors; a panel. [Obs.] Cowell.