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Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day.

The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.

from Switch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switching cars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called also switch engine. [U.S.]

Like a sylph.

Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvæ are external parasites of other insects.

The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.

The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

The quality or state of being techy.

The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.

Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

See Techiness.

The quality or state of being thankworthy.

The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

e or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.