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Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite.

Not begotten. [Obs. or Poetic] "His loins yet full of ungot princes." Waller.

the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. Waller. Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope.

change; to alternate. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate. Waller. We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies. Dryden.

coursing wits which are of the same veins. Bacon. Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. Waller.

ess; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. "When I venture at the comic style." Waller.

An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia. The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the three sides of the inner court. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

, a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.

ove, the victors from the vanquished fly; They fly that wound, and they pursue that die. Waller.

(Auchenia vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.

spect. [Obs.] [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view Dazzled, before we never knew. Waller. Field of view. See under Field. -- Point of view. See under Point. -- To have in view, to have in mind as an incident, object, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view. -- View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter…

h; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller.

was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14. Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller.

One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller.

spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale.

oos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains. [Written also wallabee, and whallabee.]

lso pela. -- Wax light, a candle or taper of wax. -- Wax moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvæ feed upon honeycomb, and construct silken galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called a…

A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

The sheatfish; -- called also waller.