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A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.

Between the cavernous sinuses; as, the intercavernous sinuses connecting the cavernous sinuses at the base of the brain.

e practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak.

The fronds of certain marine algæ used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purlpe laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; - - called also sloke, or sloakan. Mountain laver…

The lark. [Old Eng. & Scot.] [Written also lavrock.] Gower.

One who leaves, or withdraws.

ullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who naglected to brand his cattle.

honest cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [Western U. S.]

a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle.

One who palavers; a flatterer.

A genus of plants, including the poppy.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Papaveraceæ) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy. Sir T. Browne.

One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]

Favoring slavery. -- n.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

To utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. Addison.

One who quavers; a warbler.