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To swallow; -- said of fowls. Derham.

t. They shall practice how to live secure. Milton. Practice first over yourself to reign. Waller.

ourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Pope. Beneath the forehead's walled preëminence. Lowell.

A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller.

A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

ring. Chaucer. In the very prime of the world. Hooker. Hope waits upon the flowery prime. Waller.

A swallow.

A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

ring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff (Polit. Econ.), a tariff designed to secure protection (see Protection, 4.), as distinguished from a tariff designed to raise revenue. See Tariff, and Protection, 4.

ession, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron. For the world's protector shall be known. Waller.

To cut off or cut out, as useless parts. Horace will our superfluous branches prune. Waller.

inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column. -- n.

ly or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

nitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.

ulon." Southey. -- To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. -- To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of pro…

id, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. Oxf. Gloss.

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

arp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller.