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with pity. Shak. The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. M. Arnold.

Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidæ, Serranidæ, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches. Black perch. (a) The black bass. (b) The flasher. (c) The sea bass. -- Blue perch, the cunner. -- Gray perch, the fresh-water drum. -- Red perch, the rosefish.…

such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

ng representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

neath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or fuscus). -- Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house. (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. Halliwell. -- Pigeon hou…

A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

rly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

ly extending beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.

A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.

A puddle; a plash. Skinner.

Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects.

A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat Pope.