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To whinny. [Colloq.]

A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.

One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

A spiny-finned fish.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

One who achieves; a winner.

The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

Preceding dinner.

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [R.] Sherwood.

The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.

f; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.