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ingenious. Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms. Chapman. The dædal hand of Nature. J. Philips. The doth the dædal earth throw forth to thee, Out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. Spenser.

To lead forth or out. [Obs.] A people deducted out of the city of Philippos. Udall.

. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.

ecially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.

tion of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

r instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips.

or dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

ge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

velop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips.

end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.

To frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes." Philips.

That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. Philips.

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

Of a fistular form; tubular; pipe-shaped. Stalactite often occurs fistuliform. W. Philips.