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A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

aps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also three-cornered hat. (b) A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.

Funereal. [Obs.] "Defunctive music." Shak.

To degenerate. [Obs.] "Degendering to hate." Spenser. He degenereth into beastliness. Joye.

Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

r bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. See under Jig. -- Drill pin, the pin in a lock wh…

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

Elegiac; funereal.

Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

Funereal. [Obs.] Drayton.

A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." Burton.

color. -- Fox squirrel (Zoöl.), a large North American squirrel (Sciurus niger, or S. cinereus). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the cat squirrel, is more common. -- Fox terrier (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to driv…

Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [Obs.] [Written also funebral.] Sir T. Browne.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

The venereal disease. [Obs.]

owl (Zoöl.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America. -- Gray parrot (Zoöl.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. -- Gray pike. (Zoöl.) See Sauger. -- Gray snapper (Zoöl.), a Flo…

n. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.