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A pantry. [Prov. Eng.] Parker.

The ridge or top of wave. Like wave with crest of sparkling foam. Sir W. Scott.

Lively; sparking; effervescing. Your neat crisp claret. Beau & Fl.

nge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks.

To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.

Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.

points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

ment for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools. His mouth drooling with texts. T. Parker.

lectricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.

between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

followed by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke.

with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland. Milton.

es are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.