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The light given by the stars. Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Milton.

The act of binding underneath. [R.]

A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration. Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. Emerson.

The light of the sun. Milton.

Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.

A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.

The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.

The act of betrothing, or plighting faith; betrothing. [Obs.] Shak.

Having fidelity pledged.

The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18º below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.

Ineligible. Roger

Having, or walking on, hoofs.

Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.

To unfold; to lay open; to explain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Irreligious. Wordsworth.

imp. & p. p. of Uppluck.

Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.

Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.