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Soon; quickly. [Obs.] Shak.

uare-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

rth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.

s body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].

; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

out, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.

To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.

rt. "In one cantle of his law." Milton. Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak.

To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

ce; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed in the lungs, which are designated cavities or vomicæ. Quain. Body cavity, the coelum. See under Body.

An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon.

To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.

itude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.