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The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.

See Hemoglobin.

Hæmatoxylin.

See Semiglutin.

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

The young of the sea trout. [Prov. Eng.]

Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

Inflated; boastful.

The state of being hilly.

The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

e whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.

With a limping step.

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

tegrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence. Who is like thee, glorious in holiness! Ex. xv. 11.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. Raymond.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Keeping at home.

Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.

thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.