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ening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow. From grave to light, from pleasant to serve. Dryden.

ly, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. Macaulay.

ral, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.

eat silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States. (b) The still finer E. Ravennæ from the Mediterranean region. The name is sometimes extended to the whole genus. -- Plume moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous small, slender moths, belonging to the family Pterophoridæ. Most of them have the wings deeply d…

force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.] Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne.

allic, or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.

A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. Bacon.

An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.

whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty. "Enrich'd with politic grave counsel." Shak.

An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch. Shak.

A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief. By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained. Hansard.

An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

f his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.

The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds.

Firm; determined; fixed. "A most posed . . . and grave behavior." [Obs.] Urquhart.

on, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.

One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." Shak.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.