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mary colors red and blue. Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Milton.

One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or con…

The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. [Obs.] Camber did possess the western quart. Spenser.

A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation. [U.S.]

A banterer; a jester; a mocker. [R.] Wycherley.

tract of land used for grazing and rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke.

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

he genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun. Addison.

Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith and thee unholy leagued. Sylvester.

A rhymer; a rhymester. Johnston.

Destitute of right. Sylvester.

nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. [Western & Southern U. S.] D. S. Jordan.

A rivulet. [R.] Sylvester.

A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.