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e good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

h hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax. Fairholt. Craig. -- Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the mean time shall b…

Lying toward the west. Yond same star that's westward from the pole. Shak.

whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. Walpole.

her. I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another. Walpole.

n, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee. [Sometimes written also weekwam.] Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curtains. Longfellow.…

ecome coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. So swift your judgments turn and wind. Dryden.

Ability or capacity to write. [R.] Walpole.

An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.

ate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.