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Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett.

Gay or rich clothing. My heart groans beneath the gay caparison. Smollett.

To vomit. [Slang] Smollett.

ding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.

Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. Smollet. -- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross- country ride." Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another,…

without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant. Smollett.

of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

An intaglio. Mollett.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

[Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.

malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. The envenomed tongue of calumny. Smollett. On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed. Sir G. C. Lewis.

A formal eulogy. Smollett.

A wandering beyond limits; excess. [Obs.] Smollett.

shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

ecies are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.