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as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment. To take t' other peep at the stars. Swift.

A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.

nd man in German; as, people in adversity. People were tempted to lend by great premiums. Swift . People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water. Arbuthnot .

Hot; pungent; peppery. Swift.

e.] "Peregrine and preternatural heat." Bacon. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly black on the head and cheeks, white beneath, barred with black below the throa…

To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. Swift.

Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.

Swiftness; celerity. [R.] Ray.

tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language. Swift.

Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Swift.

A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] Swift.

Of or pertaining to physicologic. Swift.

otmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.

To be squeamishly nice about one's food. Swift.

A kind of twisted chewing tobacco. The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail. Swift.

One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. Swift.

, mottled gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. -- Pine marten. (Zoöl.) (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten. (b) The American sable. See Sable. -- Pine moth (Zoöl.), any one of seve…

A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.