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ot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

Disgrace; reproach; dishonor; opprobrium. Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb. Shak.

A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.

To make sleek or smoth. "Slicked all with sweet oil." Chapman.

A moth. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.

Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth (Apatela oblinita).

To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.

Smoldering; suffocating; smothery. [Obs.] A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke. Spenser.

To suffocate or smother. [Written also smore.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir T. More. Burns.

To smother. See Smoor. [Obs.] Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored. Du Bartas.

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

scenity. He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. Addison. Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

es having an elongated snout and belonging to the tribe Rhynchophora; a weevil. -- Snout moth (Zoöl.), any pyralid moth. See Pyralid.

close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.

sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps. -- Soldier moth (Zoöl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots. -- Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).

and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude. G. W. Cable.

A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son. Gen. xxi. 2.

The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.