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silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

ht. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Milton. And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. Cowper.

Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.

Without a creed. Carlyle.

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.

ction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

Without a crown.

Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

t one has to perform in, or as in, a play. Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter. Shak.

The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.

heat, in the process of cupping. -- Dry cupping, the application of a cupping instrument without scarification, to draw blood to the surface, produce counter irritation, etc. -- Wet cupping, the operation of drawing blood by the application of a cupping instrument after scarification.

f disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. Dryden.

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

. Cycloid scale (Zoöl.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.