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a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot. You run your head into the lion's mouth. Sir W. Scott. Having run his fingers through his hair. Dickens.

Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient. Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4. -- Salient polygon (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are salient. -- Salient polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.

seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

fore risen one fifth in value. Locke. The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. Addison.

The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

A sea lion.

e to lawful authority. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it. If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holde…

Sitting, as a lion or other beast. Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.

Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.

onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.

haucer The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. -- Sigh"ing*ly, adv.

To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

hen; sometimes. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak.

hyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

ers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion. Swift .

, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.