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To make sad. [Obs.] Feltham.

opted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains. The avoirdupois pou…

of success or superiority; to give the advantage to the person or side previously at a disadvantage. -- To turn tippet, to make a change. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- To turn to profit, advantage, etc., to make profitable or advantageous. -- To turn up. (a) To turn so as to bring the bottom side on top; as, to turn up the…

A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.

In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

Lonely; dreary; unkard. [Prov. Eng.] Weston is sadly unked without you. Cowper.

To take the saddle off; to unsaddle. [Obs.] Jervas.

A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]

Of or pertaining to a rampart. Vallar crown (Rom. Antiq.), a circular gold crown with palisades, bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke into the enemy's camp.

Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; -- opposed to dorsad.

A votary. Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. Milton.

company." Chaucer. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. J. R. Green.

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as night Only for wantonness. Shak.

small, hard tumor which is produced on the back of a horse by the heat or pressure of the saddle in traveling.

ress or personal decoration. Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton. With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.

One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type.

" Shak. For the public all this weight he bears. Milton. [He] who singly bore the world's sad weight. Keble.

To contract; to shorten. [Obs.] Now sad winter welked hath the day. Spenser.

Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the world in general; sentimental pessimism.