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In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

To bring out from concealment; to discover. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.

Ignobly. J. Fletcher.

Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate. [Written also unsilly.] [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Un*se"li*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.

Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.

Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He lay upright." Chaucer. Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.

chaic] "[/Angels] on the air plumy vans received him. " Milton. He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain. Dryden.

t of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.

from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.

e; a wager. [Obs.] We 'll all to church together instantly, And then a vie for boys. J. Fletcher.

The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, as, a fine view of Lake George.

Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines. P. Fletcher.

Violent. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

y water to a distant place or country. I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher. So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton. All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Shak.