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of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope.

To enter on; to commence. Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song. Pope.

ly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.

A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generall…

Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs. Shak.

A god or goddess; a divinity. [Obs.] Adoring first the genius of the place, The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown. Dryden.

A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.

A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

A water nymph.

him unto the brow of the hill. Luke iv. 29. In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. Milton.

recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum. -- Water lily (Bot.), the Nymphæa, a plant with floating roundish leaves, and large flowers having many petals, usually white, but sometimes pink, red, blue, or yellow. [See Illust. of Nymphæa.]

A nymph of the meadows; -- called also Limniad.

s, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphæa Lotus and N. cærulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

presented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.

In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.