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Like a dove; harmless; innocent. "Joined with dovish simplicity." Latimer.

The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. And the first down begins to shade his face. Dryden.

elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

Any collection of irrational animals, moving or driving forward; as, a finny drove. Milton.

g. Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.

ull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit. Supinely calm and dully innocent. G. Lyttelton.

of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton. Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed;…

fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.

The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

The inner layer of the bark of trees.