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Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

See Carbuncle, 3.

A nursery of snails. [Obs.] Addison.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

ound about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

ash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower. [East Indies]

n a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak.

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.]

A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

Having the form of a brush.

A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

Producing miscarriage. -- n.

e expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.