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Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

er parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The several seasons of the year in their beauty. Addison.

Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.] She was beauty's self. Thomson.

livery of the burnished sun. Shak. Why sad I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. Beau & Fl.

ll but the throne itself of God. Milton. What danger Who 's that that shakes behind there Beau & FL. Shaking piece, a name given by butchers to the piece of beef cut from the under side of the neck. See Illust. of Beef.

One who, or that which, disgraces, or makes ashamed. Beau & Fl.

roper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face. Prior.

substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold.

To live by shifts and stratagems. Beau & Fl.

A broad expanse of water, or the like. "The two beautiful sheets of water." Macaulay.

To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. "So proud she shined in her princely state." Spenser. Once brightest shined this child of heat and air. Pope.

Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. [Low] Beau & Fl.

To jog; to move on. [R. or Scot.] Beau & Fl.

ast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. Beau & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. Macaulay.

See Shoo. Beau & Fl.

, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively. Get you to the church and shrive yourself. Beau & Fl.

(Zoöl.), the mademoiselle, 2. -- Silver pheasant (Zoöl.), any one of several species of beautiful crested and long-tailed Asiatic pheasants, of the genus Euplocamus. They have the tail and more or less of the upper parts silvery white. The most common species (E. nychtemerus) is native of China. -- Silver plate, dom…

Same as Sincerity. Beau & Fl.

imple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau & Fl. Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a p…

See Cinque. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.