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. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

ss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. J. R. Drake.

urope and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

] -- Gorse chat (Zoöl.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap. -- Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. -- Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).

viduality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. -- May beetle, May bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of large lamellico…

Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.

Of or pertaining to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake.

Dark; murky. He can not see through the mantle murk. J. R. Drake.

To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.

jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] -- Water robin (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

Vermilion red; red. [R.] Her face was like the lily roon. J. R. Drake.

hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.

a sheet. The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky. J. R. Drake. To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.