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Skilled in all kinds of work. "The panurgic Diderot." J. Morley.

A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.

The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.

To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. The stumbling night did part our weary powers. Shak.

the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles. By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. Earle.

n or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan. The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When statesmen are ruled by fa…

to impassion. [Obs.] Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly kind and queen did passionate. Spenser.

orth from concealment; to make the first appearance. When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear. Dryden.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. He all his peers in beauty did surpass. Spenser.

A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [Obs.] "Let such pelters prate." Gascoigne.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

unto God that performeth all things for me. Ps. lvii. 2. Great force to perform what they did attempt. Sir P. Sidney.

false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations. [Obs.] And with a virgin innocence did pray For me, that perjured her. J. Fletcher.

figure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

A South American opossum (Didelphys philander).

ny one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidæ. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.

n. "Phrases of the hearth." Tennyson. Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst. Shak.

he natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. With his white hair and splendid physique. Mrs. Stowe.

with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.