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Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

ughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. Brooke (Eastford). Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.

action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground. From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground. Milton.

Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.

ad. -- Horned dace (Zoöl.), an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. -- Horned frog (Zoöl.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of…

Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] "A huge hulking fellow." H. Brooke.

holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of…

An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed. H. Brooke.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

tant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink. H. Brooke.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.

acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle. Milton. Honey in woods, juleps in brooks. H. Vaughan.

r even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

and delicate, though simple, thought. Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. [Obs.] H. Brooke. Fuller.

important; to take account of; to care for. [Obs.] He did not matter cold nor hunger. H. Brooke.

abyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton green." Shak. Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook. Wordaworth. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison.

wer female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.