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ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony. Marshall.

To uncover. [Obs.] Spenser. Marston.

Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] "Unnooked simplicity." Marston.

Having no peer; unequaled; unparalleled. "Unpeered excellence." Marston.

Not poised or weighed; hence, regardless of consequences; unhesitating. [Obs.] Marston.

e shale, or husk, from; to uncover. [Obs.] I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. Marston.

To breathe up or out; to exhale. [Obs.] Marston.

ar the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

Destitute of an usher. Marston.

gascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.

The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.

The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.

A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.

has the consistency of oil. -- Red vitriol, a native sulphate of cobalt. -- Vitriol of Mars, ferric sulphate, a white crystalline substance which dissolves in water, forming a red solution. -- White vitriol, zinc sulphate, a white crystalline substance used in medicine and in dyeing. It is usually obtained by disso…

fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful. Vulpine phalangist (Zoöl.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial (Phalangista, or Trichosurus, vulpina); -- called also vulpine phalanger, and vulpine opossum.

halter; one likely to be hanged. [Colloq. & Obs.] I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.

and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." Cowper. These Lincoln washes have devoured them. Shak.

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

A labiate plant (Teucrium Scordium) found in marshy places in Europe.

Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.