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Not plundered. [Obs.] "Unpoll'd Arabian wealth." Fanshawe.

To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.

Not worldly; spiritual; holy. Hawthorne. -- Un*world"li*ness, n.

A gushing upward. Hawthorne.

-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.

poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne.

In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.

eed of lightning. Sir W. Scott. Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. Hawthorne.

To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle." Hawthorne.

nd in Florida and the West Indies. -- Vine sphinx (Zoöl.), any one of several species of hawk moths. The larvæ feed on grapevine leaves. -- Vine weevil. (Zoöl.) See Vine borer (a) above, and Wound gall, under Wound.

ii. 10. (f) (Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; -- said of a hawk. Encyc. Brit.

Any of various species of hawthorn.

The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor

th one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.

nt forth out of his study, -- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant. Hawthorne.

careless to the winds. Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. Hawthorne.

To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air. Encyc. Brit. To weather a point. (a) (Naut.) To pass a point of land, leaving it on the lee side. (b) Hence, to gain or accomplish anything against opposition. -- To weather out, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty; as, to weather out a storm.…