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art thou lost! how on a sudden lost! Milton. He withdrew his opposition all of a sudden. Thackeray.

vely grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them. -- Sugar berry (Bot.), the hackberry. -- Sugar bird (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera Coereba, Dacnis, and allied genera belonging to the family Coerebidæ. They are allied to the honey eaters. -- Sugar…

Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine. [R.] Thackeray.

A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. Thackeray.

A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

To flog; to lash. [Slang] Thackeray.

See Tabbinet. Thackeray.

American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems." Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.

A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.

o bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To make tipsy. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

of ton. Byron. If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish. Thackeray. Bon ton. See in the Vocabulary.

when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making him amble.

Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.