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The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so- called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heteroecious, etc.

Wet with vapors; moist.

Covered with verdure. Poe.

Having various colors; changeable in color. "Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers." Burton.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

Wearing a visor; masked. Visored falsehood and base forgery. Milton.

Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated. I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter. Thackera

Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye. Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Gen. xxix. 17.

Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.

Good-natured; kind. Well-natured, temperate, and wise. Denham.

ers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race. Cowper.

eble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.

Made of, secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather. Milton.

Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy. Dryden.

Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Having performed wonders; able to perform wonderful things. [Obs.] Shak.

Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. [Obs.] B. Jonson.