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A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (-Bentley.

physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. Motley.

fter age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

culminated in the secondary era. Dana. The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. Motley.

One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

t, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial. Shipley.

effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. Mozley & W.

so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law. Mozley & W.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.

Sumptuous in cheer. [Obs.] Bailey.

The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.

ho . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." Morley. See Mortmain. -- Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. -- Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. --…

England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.

To gild. [Obs.] Bailey.