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The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.

Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [Obs.] [Written also funebral.] Sir T. Browne.

Funebrial. [Obs.]

Intoxicating.

To make drunk; to intoxicate. The cups That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper.

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating. [R.] T. Brown.

The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.

(Zoöl.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmæus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.

A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.

the state of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.

The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

A merganser. [Prov. Eng.]

To reprimand; to sneap. [Obs.] "Scold and sneb the good oak." Spenser.

A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.

Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.

One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.

The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2. [Local, U.S.]