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th fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes." Hemans.

the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

To love. [Obs.] Wodroephe.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

d farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

ue is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison.

anus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

Of or pertaining to the roebuck.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. "Charge for the guns!" he said. Tennyson.

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.

The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have severed as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend aof Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.

oets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.

partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.…

Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.