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oman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural. "Ah, sirrah mistress." Beau & Fl. Go, sirrah, to my cell. Shak.

sisters, collectively. "A sisterhood of holy nuns." Shak. The fair young flowers . . . a beauteous sisterhood. Bryant.

To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beau. & Fl.

To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. Beau & Fl.

A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.] Let me put on my skull first. Beau & Fl.

of silver cloud. Tennyson. A thin slip of a girl, like a new moon Sure to be rounded into beauty soon. Longfellow.

Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

Destitute of smell; having no odor. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint. Beau & Fl.

imp. & p. p. of Smite. Spenser. Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene. Cowper.

canty draperies of his style. De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.

ient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.

up; silenced. See Sneck up, under Sneck. Give him money, George, and let him go snick up. Beau & Fl.

To catch, as an eel, by sniggling; hence, to hook; to insnare. Beau & Fl.

ystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. Snowdrop tree. See Silver-bell tree, under Silver, a.

No longer hostile; friendly. [Obs.] Beau & Fl. Sociable bird, or Sociable weaver (Zoöl.), a weaver bird which builds composite nests. See Republican, n., 3. (b).

aulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.

The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. Addison. There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. E. Everett.

illiant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate. Donne. What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty Shak. Spangled coquette (Zoöl.), a tropical humming bird (Lophornis reginæ). See Coquette, 2.