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In an easy, gliding manner, as if swimming; smoothly; successfully; prosperously.

e end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the int…

To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

Thankfully. [Obs.] Sylvester (Du Bartas).

. For this thankworthy, if a man, for conscience toward God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. ii. 19.

In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.

So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.

, any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus Cochoa. They are beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling thrushes in size and habits. -- Water thrush. (a) The European dipper. (b) An American warbler (Seiurus Noveboracensis).

To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.

One who toils, or labors painfully.

bove. -- To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to dress one's self carefully.

ewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. -- Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.

rive with all the tempest in my teeth." Pope. -- To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. -- Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. -- Too…

rail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

To pass over and view; to survey carefully. My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South.

To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.