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es, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow.

es found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively…

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

and one in hand, to concern or affect one. -- To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of, to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibi…

To be, or be like, a suspended weight. Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden. Addison.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century.

ch, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to whi…

In a heating manner; so as to make or become hot or heated.

(Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere…

y modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

A priest who becomes a martyr.

e shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In…

e and hit one against another Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. Atoms . . . which at length hitched together. South.

To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak.

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. Our force by land hath nobly held. Shak.

To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." Shak. Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord. Tennyson.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [Obs.] A. Seward.