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To regulate by musical measure. These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. Philips.

A king of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.

In the Philippines, a light, two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.

ome gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up. A. Philips.

A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

In the Philippines, the sapodilla or its fruit; also, the marmalade tree or its fruit.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. [Obs.] J. Philips.

clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.

Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4.

ready begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott.

he state of being contemporaneous. The lines of contemporaneity in the oölitic system. J. Philips.

tion, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

ourse of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

ch; to equal; -- usually followed by with. Host coped with host, dire was the din of war. Philips. Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens. Addison.

; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.