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Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

A dry sirocco of Spain.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

To blow the recheat. Drayton.

Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.

The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.

To seek. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [Scot]

Wreak. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to zoöchemistry.

Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.

Animal chemistry; zoöchemistry. Dunglison.

The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

bbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

nly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

luding the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

nment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

er; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.