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Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.

The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage.

Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect. Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight. Dryden.

To pledge; to pawn. [Obs.] Bacon.

e same point; -- sometimes called binocular parallax. -- Optic axis. (Opt.) (a) A line drawn through the center of the eye perpendicular to its anterior and posterior surfaces. In a normal eye it is in the direction of the optic axis that objects are most distinctly seen. (b) The line in a doubly refracting crystal, i…

A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.

The act of gaping or yawning.

Yawning; gaping.

To gape; to yawn.

The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.

In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

e of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

c spindle, the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis of the curve, about that line as an axis. -- Parabolic spiral, a spiral curve conceived to be formed by the periphery of a semiparabola when its axis is wrapped about a circle; also, any other spir…

rallax of a body with reference to the sun, or the angle subtended at the body by lines drawn from it to the earth and sun; as, the heliocentric parallax of a planet. -- Horizontal parallax, the geocentric parallx of a heavenly body when in the horizon, or the angle subtended at the body by the earth's radius. -- Opt…

ome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." Milton.