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The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).

To surpass in singing. See Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

To exceed in feasting.

Pisolite.

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

See Pinaster.

Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.

Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.

s apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South.

The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.

A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.

Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

Toward the southeast.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom. [Obs.] P. Fletcher,

The goosander. [Local, U. S.]

The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puf…

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.