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A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] Nares. He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest. Kyd.

. [Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.] To ketch him at a vantage in his snares. Spenser.

Fantastic; restless; as, kicksy-wicksy flames. Nares.

is living by giving false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper in general. Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence." -- Nash. -- Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in dist…

To beat severely. [Low] Nares.

A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer.

Urine. [Prov. Eng.] Nares.

the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak.

Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares.' Spenser.

See Nunchion. Nares.

passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.

The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening. [Archaic] Nares.

not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] Nares.

n skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an…

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

y of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow.

An idle, ragged person. Nares. Grose.

The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.