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A pipe to let off water.

f moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture. [Written also oylet.]

Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

Homiletical. [Obs.]

A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, or Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.

Filled; crowded. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of filling up, or the state of being filled up; fullness. [Obs.]

A little bone.

The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.

l owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus). Owlet moth (Zoöl.), any noctuid moth.

A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

See Eyelet.

Same as Palea.

An overcoat. Dickens.

A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]

Same as Palette.

A writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.

A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.

One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

e Holy Spirit. From which intercession especially I conceive he hath the name of the Paraclete given him by Christ. Bp. Pearson.