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To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.] Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. R. of Gloucester. I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Sir P. Sidney.

er. To know one's own limitations, to know the reach and limits of one's abilities. A. R. Wallace.

An esculent swallow.

Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich.

ænia sirtalis). -- Lizard stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

re of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate. The secret which I loathe. Waller. She loathes the vital sir. Dryden.

olitary. Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. Pope.

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

A bag; a wallet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. Waller.

the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort. See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! Shak. They man their boats, and all their young men arm. Waller.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Raymond.

One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. [Written also marten.]