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ation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

id, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.

essed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

op up; to close; to restrain. The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. Shak. To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.

A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.

To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn." Goldsmith.

Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.

tress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.

The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

easily The dark problems of existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak.

To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

Base timidity; cowardliness.

Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.