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To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer.

A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [Scot.]

A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.

pecified period. -- Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. -- Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. -- Fire master (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. -- Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance agai…

A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.

Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.] Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. Shak.

pean moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghos…

Hove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.

rous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx,…

A shed or hovel for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

tly of very small size, and are not for their very brilliant colors and peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochil…

A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.

wk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man. [Written also mollebært and mouldebært.] Simmonds.

o ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. Cowper.

To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword. Shak.

Counterfeit money. [Slang] To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang]