Search the Dictionary

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

orms little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

the common-law action of ejectment, the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe. Hence, a fictitious name for a party, real or fictitious, to any action or proceeding.

A grebe or diver; -- applied also to the golden-eye, pochard, scoter, and other ducks. [Written also ducker.] [Prov. Eng.]

The pochard; -- called also dunair, and dunker, or dun-curre.

A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb.

The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Relaxation. [R.] Richardson (Dict. ).

ide the foul lines; -- called also a fair hit. -- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, -- Fair play, equitable or impartial treatment; a fair or equal chance; justice. -- From fair t…

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard.

The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

To provide with a fortune. Richardson.

Frolicsome. [Obs.] Richardson.

hians follow. Shak. Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear Richardson A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. Sir H. Wotton.

A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

The state of being gifted. Echard.

Boast; a triumphing. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson. Internal gloriation or triumph of the mind. Hobbes.

ross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14 No one . . . should glory in his prosperity. Richardson.