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A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar. [Obs.]

rnment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing saek. [Written also sacque.]

g to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton.

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arowlike appendage.

The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10.

The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath. Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, or argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is call…

A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.

The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. Deut. v. 15.

a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service. The Lord shall give thee rest . . . from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. Isa. xiv. 3.

The quality or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.

dvance. (b) To promote. -- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. -- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce…

Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

blenny (Blennius pholis). It is olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the head.

e ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast she sheathes her dagger now. Dryden.

carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a shipwright. -- Ship chandler, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other, furniture of vessels. -- Ship chandlery, the commodities in which a ship chandler deals; also, the business of a ship chandler. -- Ship fever (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also putrid, jail,…

nds, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.