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Strong desire; passion. (Archaic.) Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task. Chaucer. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Dryden.

ure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play Swift.

which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.

A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

A mask; a masquerade.

An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

logy. Bacon. Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice. Spectator.

A hand basket. [Obs.] Herrick.

y, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark. How old may Phillis be, you ask. Prior.

See Raskolnik.

A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. Milton.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

orthern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.