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rom the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii. Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth. Milton.

A little ship. [R.] Holinshed.

The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]

ards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

A skeleton. See Scelet.

Pertaining to the skeleton.

Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.

That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.

hing; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

A little smile. [R.] Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak.

A small spark. [Obs.]

A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]