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Uncivilly. [Obs.] Shak.

Turned into, or reduced to, a village. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To exceed in villainy.

powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags. Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios. Addison.

One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs. The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant. Johnson's Cyc.

; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

ly of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

To feign or counterfeit; to simulate. With acted fear the villain thus pursued. Dryden. To act a part, to sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble. -- To act the part of, to take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.

One who actuates, or puts into action. [R.] Melville.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

y or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

f two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

e skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

ngular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.