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ng birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies. [Written also herl.]

, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.

A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. [R.] Drayton.

implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone.

ss; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

sition to make others happy, or to oblige. Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love. Rom. xii. 10.

e adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.

a low or level country; -- opposed to highland. The Lowlands, Belgium and Holland; the Netherlands; also, the southern part of Scotland.

See Fatherlasher.

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

In a motherly manner.

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

f or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly. Offices that require heat ... should be meridional. Sir H. Wotton. Meridional distance, the distance or departure from the meridian; the easting or westing. -- Meridional parts, parts of the meridian in Mercator's projection, corresponding to each minute of latitude from…

nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

To sport with roughly; to rumple. [Written also mouzle.] [Obs.] Wycherley.