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See Smoldry.

Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden.

One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.

; arrogance; presumption; insolence. [Obs.] Chaucer. Then pay you the price of your surquedry. Spenser.

Surrender. [Obs.]

t the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.] And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. Spenser.

A tender; an offer. [Obs.] Heylin.

Vagabondage.

The character or practices o "He acquired a reputation bordering on wizardry." J. A. Symonds.

To be ominous. [Obs.] Dryden.

ier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden.

Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.] Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. Dryden.

ecially of meat. Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for the soul's offense. Dryden.

spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

nds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden.

o array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

e, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.