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d of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanderson.

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.

nd; accordant; harmonious. Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps. Milton.

A quicksand; a bog. [R.] Young.

Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand. [R.] Ed. Rev.

A quicksand. Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land. Milton.

ched closely to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.] Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fuller.

y, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. Grafton.

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

ddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors. Addison.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

One ready in quoting texts. [R.] Bp. Sanderston.

ar that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive." Sandys. O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives Milton. And so she throve and prospered. Tennyson.