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A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.

One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.

ision of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

nto squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. Macaulay.

Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. J. Forsyth.

Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

t. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.…

To sell by auction.

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.