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, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. They are mostly pale blue, or ash- blue, marked with white, and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers. Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon. -- Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her own right. -- Queen's Bench. See King'…

A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark vi. 27).

a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

nd breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc. Quotation marks (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.

A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle. "A ruddle of rouge." Thackeray.

r rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun. Mark what radiant state she spreads. Milton.

Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.

Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.

To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

ly At random, sometimes hit most happily. Herrick. O, many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant ! Sir W. Scott.

Early. [Obs.] Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. Chapman.

A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.

Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value. Twenty oræ were ratable to [at] two marks of silver. Camden.

rary of what was said or suggested; instead. Was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] "The fifth that did it ray." Spenser.

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

To mark or indicate by a rebus. He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.

other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots. Mark vii. 4.

on for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. Red- letter day, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.