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Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior. Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.

The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

ile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.

The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

ted toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.

nto it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.

ch are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.

To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.

ngs; pierching; keen; severe; painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. The morning sharp and clear. Cowper. In sharpest perils faithful proved. Keble.

also horned lark. -- Shore plover (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. -- Shore teetan (Zoöl.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell

Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

To nip; to blast; to blight. [Obs.] Biron is like an envious, sneaping frost. Shak.

The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.

f criminals, and the like. -- Social whale (Zoöl.), the blackfish. -- The social evil, prostitution.

A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.

Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.