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A fool; a blockhead. [R.] Shak. Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. -- Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. -- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer…

Dung; fæces; compost; manure; as, night soil. Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. Mortimer. Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.

A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.] The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number. Sir T. Browne.

Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." Dunglison. Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.

A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison.

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

The dung of an otter.

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw. [Obs.]

The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost. Dunglison. -- Staph`y*lo*plas"tic, a.

A chalybeate medicine. Dunglison.

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.

A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Manuring with dung. [Obs.] Bacon.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry. [Obs.] Howell.