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ap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

th. Shak. As I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light. [R.] The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God. Boule.

Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

ge gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind. The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile. All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.…

f flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produ…

To cause to shine with abundance of light; to radiate; to beam. [R.] His eyes effulging a peculiar fire. Thomson.

ued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. And fires eternal in thy temple shine. Dryden.

e or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. Num. vi. 25. My face [favor] will I turn also from them. Ezek. vii. 22.

sh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.

g flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow. In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed. Milton.

hade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

Showy; unreal; pretentious. Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. Tennyson.

To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.