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Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum. O. W. Holmes.

dge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. R. S. Poole.

mal; to mantle. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool. Shak.

the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. Dryden.

habitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson.

this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

A slight indentation on any surface. The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright. Wordsworth.

Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.

slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

A pool or puddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

d. The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era. R. S. Poole.

the Revised Version, porcupine. I will make it [Babylon] a possession for the ericius and pools of waters. Is. xiv. 23 (Douay version).

n work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. -- Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1…

till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. The rain also filleth the pools. Ps. lxxxiv. 6. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. John ii. 7.

material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11.

A pool. [Prov. Eng.] Haliwell.

dom influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.