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A devotee. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To run as a flood. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

In a disjointed state. Sandys.

le poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. [Eng.] Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. Sandys.

w in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.

Same as Drought. Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

To damnify; to injure. [R.] Sandys.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.

To wait; to stay. [Obs.] Sandys.

To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] "To expediate their business." Sir E. Sandys.

The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.

To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense. Sandys. Expugne the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope.

To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.

To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] Sandys.