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Deep thought; muse. [Obs.] Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

A stupid fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt. Shak. Asses' Bridge. Etym: [L. pons asinorum.] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, t…

mpanion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

e bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

ent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.] Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.

empt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

a (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made hea…

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.