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Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front. Knight.

To vouch falsely.

A handkerchief.

An ouch; a jewel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.

A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.

A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

See Pouncet box.

A superior kind of souchong tea. De Colange.

To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

One who retouches.

See Ruche.

A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gayton.

A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.