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A bellowing. [Obs.]

Lowing; bellowing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

d dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.

A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.

Rebellowing. Dr. H. More.

A swagman. [Australia]

Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

Telangiectasis.

Crying like a child. [Obs.]

The pied wagtail. [Prov. Eng.]

Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. These men addressed themselves to the task. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

f origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to pl. analogies. Johnson.

lish; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.

Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.