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A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.

See Overhaul. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

See Phallism.

The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.

Same as Prothallus.

The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oöphoric generation of ferns, etc.

To owe; to be under obligation for. [Obs.] "By the faith I shall to God" Court of Love.

See Challis.

An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.

A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.

A boat. [She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser.

A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.

Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.

Shallow-brained.