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ood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

The European yellow-hammer.

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.

pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single la…

The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]

A glance of the eye; an amorous look. [Obs.] She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks. Shak.

To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.

Pholad.

A pistol shot.

To lade or load again.

A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

An ointment used in farriery.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

A helmet. See Sallet.

See Escalade. Fairfax.

A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] Drayton.

s which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. [Written also twyblade.]