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e is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Spectator.

nd supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

Grand Seignior. See under Seignior. -- Grand stand, the principal stand, or erection for spectators, at a, race course, etc. -- Grand vicar (Eccl.), a principal vicar; an ecclesiastical delegate in France. -- Grand vizier. See under Vizier.

A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity. He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator. Addison.

indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. "His morning hems." Spectator.

Heroic. [R.] Spectator. -- He*ro"ic*al*ly, adv. -- He*ro"ic*al*ness, n.

False optics. Spectator.

Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours. Spectator.

The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky. And when the morning sun shall raise his car Above the border of this horizon. Shak. All the horizon round Invested with bright rays. Milton.

To express satisfaction by a humming noise. Here the spectators hummed. Trial of the Regicides.

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

xing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts.

be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension. Spectator.

y person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment. Addison.

In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. [R.] London Spectator.