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ake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.

A million ergs; a megerg.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

n the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).

species (Lucinia philomela), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species. Mock nightingale. (Zoöl.) See Blackcap, n., 1 (a).

Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata).

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

To enertaas, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.

The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

One who regales.

, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]

See Stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

The stannel. [Prov. Eng.]

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]

The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the act…