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To pay the customs of. [Obs.] Marlowe.

she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage. Marlowe.

cy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. "A deficiencyof blood." Arbuthnot. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum f…

rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

ature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

To hate. [Obs.] Marlowe.

r. [Obs.] Red with an eye of blue makes a purple. Boyle. By the eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalc…

arton. My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlowe.

Full of fiendish spirit or arts. Marlowe. -- Fiend"ful*ly, adv.

A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

le; the head of a column of soldiers. An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke Marlborough at the head of them. Addison.

unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys. -- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die…

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. [Obs.] Marlowe.

extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious. Infinite riches in a little room. Marlowe. Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life. Milton.

To mark or imprint with lines. A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow. Marlowe.

Italianized; Italianated. "Apish, childish, and Italianate." Marlowe.

ddle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

moving the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child.

nterlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages. De Quincey.

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.