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sting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or caval…

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.]

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

e; a vanguard. [Obs.] Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the enemy. Oliver Cromvell.

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.

ing; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. Marvell. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. Maccaulay.

2. A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads.

broil on a grill or gridiron. Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. Marvell.

One who grovels; an abject wretch. [Written also groveller.]

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

d thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.

ne who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.

the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

wn (Chem.), a brown resinous substance found in crude indigo. -- Indigo copper (Min.), covellite. -- Indigo green, a green obtained from indigo. -- Indigo plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant of several species (genus Indigofera), from which indigo is prepared. The different varieties are natives of Asia, Africa, and Am…

In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.

The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.

aterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

s to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.