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An oval, compressed, European food fish (Zeus faber). Its color is yellow and olive, with golden, silvery, and blue reflections. It has a round dark spot on each side. Called also dory, doree, and St. Peter's fish.

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

r of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

The twenty-fourth part of a grain; -- a weight used by goldsmiths. Crabb.

c, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen. Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. Goldsmith.

India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. -- a.

eart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

f the kneejoint of a human being. With weary knuckles on thy brim she kneeled sadly down. Golding.

Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold, -- a variety of damascening much used in the arts of India.

, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.

described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard.

at beauty and cost. -- Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc. -- Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings…

liant eyes. Their larvæ are useful in destroying aphids. Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

laden heart. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Is. i. 4. A ship laden with gold. Shak.

A wife; -- not now in approved usage. Goldsmith.

es; -- probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

Foil or wire made of gold, silver, or brass. De Colange.

A lamp or candlestick. [R.] By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench.