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Pursy. [Obs.] Holland.

To curdle; to coagulate, as milk. [Obs.] Holland.

Earnest desire or longing. [Obs.] Holland. To pick a quarrel. See under Pick, v. t.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

Refuse matter. [Obs.] Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones. Holland.

To separate into parts; to sift. [Obs.] Holland.

That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. [Obs.] Holland.

"The river's wooded reach." Tennyson. The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. Holland.

Receptacle. [Obs.] Holland.

to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

aimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.

r an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. Holland. "A refrigerant to passion." Blair.

is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk. Holland.

To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] "They can so well resemble man's speech." Holland.

e. [Obs.] Little resolution and certainty there is as touching the islands of Mauritania. Holland.

e of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.

The backbone. [Obs.] Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.

See Rye. [Obs.] Holland. Rie grass. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley (Hordeum pratense). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior.

A rafter. [Obs.] Holland.