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Having no need. [Obs.] Weeping into the needless stream. Shak.

ss. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

hest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. Dunglison.

strife ... between me and thee. Gen. xiii. 8. That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. Byron.

strumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.

y; submissive to restraint, control, or command. And floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak. The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. Milton.

fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

ngle unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. The dream of Pharaoh is one. Gen. xli. 25. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England. Shak.

An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.

The art of interpreting dreams.

Divination by means of dreams. De Quincey.

One who interprets dreams.

The interpretation of dreams.

le twigs of this plant, or of other somilar plants. The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream. Shak. Osier bed, or Osier holt, a place where willows are grown for basket making. [Eng.] -- Red osier. (a) A kind of willow with reddish twigs (Salix rubra). (b) An American shrub (Cornus stolonifera) which has slender red…

g, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table. Certain lakes . . . poison birds which fly over them. Bacon.