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To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. Shak.

Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvæ, crustaceans, and mollusks.

A branch; a twig. [Obs.] The bitter frosts with the sleet and rain Destroyed hath the green in every yerd. Chaucer.

A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.

h partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.

Fig.: A recent time; time not long past. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs. Macaulay.

A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.