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A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.] Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton.

In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

arch he was attacked by fever. Macaulay. Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass. B. Stewart.

Having an axle; -- used in composition. Merlin's agate-axled car. T. Warton.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a quest…

To bully; to threaten. [Low] T. Warton.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

Dark-visaged; swart.

e; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks, Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box. J. Warton.

Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton.

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

ning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton.

Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.

Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. "Capitulary acts." Warton.

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

dern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry. Stewart. Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule). De Quincey.