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A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

0 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n.

A choice taw or marble. Dickens.

See Alley, a marble or taw.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

e; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

d or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

A trible of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.

adruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

tstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

d the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba. -- Fox hunter. (a) One who pursues foxes with hounds. (b) A horse ridden in a fox chase. -- Fox shark (Zoöl.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher. -- Fox sleep, pretended sleep. -- Fox sparrow (Zoöl.…

Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.