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Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table. [Cant]

er, or jockey, who is below a standard medium weight. Cf. Feather weight, under Feather. [Cant] -- To make light of, to treat as of little consequence; to slight; to disregard. -- To set light by, to undervalue; to slight; to treat as of no importance; to despise.

Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also g…

Small in dignity, power, or importance; not great; insignificant; contemptible. When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes I Sam. xv. 17.

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant]

y hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]

On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]

To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

rn; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

A little or insignificant lord. Goldsmith.

A werewolf; a lycanthrope.

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.

A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. South.

To congratulate. [Oxford Univ. Cant] Whately.