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Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

To bind by moral or legal obligation. Wolsey.

of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

e of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]

A bird of the family Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

ria cereana) whose larvæ feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little cr…

To howl at. [Obs.] The wolf behowls the moon. Shak.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

To make bitter. Wolcott.

nded beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Swollen; protuberant.