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A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. Crabb.

Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

o the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.

A scabbard, as of a sword. [Obs.] Shak.

- so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of…

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

The act of piercing or stabbing.

f violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct and preferable term." Abbott.

prairies. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.

To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.

To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. "A poor vessel." Clarendon.

A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident. [R.] Crabb.

A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.]

e always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. Shak.