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ted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. Milton.

Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

rs of stocks, etc., are made. -- Transfer paper, a prepared paper used by draughtsmen, engravers, lithographers, etc., for transferring impressions. -- Transfer table. (Railroad) Same as Traverse table. See under Traverse.

Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume. Byron.

under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

Not yet made or formed; as, an unmade grave. Shak.

Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave. Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, Tombless, with no remembrance over them. Shak.

procedure; custom; habitual use; method. Chaucer. It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne. Macaulay.

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The persons wh…

ns; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron.

A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.

One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. Sir T. Browne.

l; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like. Fairholt.

a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. To wash gold, etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity. -- To wash the hands of. See under Hand.

weak or feeble creature. Shak. "All looking on him as a weakling, which would post to the grave." Fuller. We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Latimer.

Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. [Obs.] Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.