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A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. Shak.

The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.

; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.

Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.

Uninhabited. [Obs.] Brathwait.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

nscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Same as Columbite.

In passing; incidentally; by the way. Obiter dictum (Law), an incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2(a).

A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.

The cow blackbird. [Local, U. S.]

One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak.

One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.