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ud or defiant look. "Gentle looks." Shak. Up ! up! my friends, and clear your looks. Wordsworth.

A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

A husband. "My lord being old also." Gen. xviii. 12. Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee. Shak.

One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. [Archaic] Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.

Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop lounge. Miss Edgeworth.

Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.

dinarily made by cows and other bovine animals. Talking voices and the law of herds. Wordsworth.

Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind. Low-minded and immoral. Macaulay. All old religious jealousies were condemned as low-minded infirmities. Bancroft.

Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Matt. xi. 29.

The herb moonwort or "honesty".

carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. "Swayed the royal mace." Wordsworth.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

A main-hamper. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. [Obs.] For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.

arming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed Shak.

medicine as a demulcent. -- Marsh marigold. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Marsh pennywort (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; - - called also water pennywort. -- Marsh quail (Zoöl.), the meadow lark. -- Marsh rosemary (Bot.), a plant of…