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Outlawry. [Obs.] Camden.

es, bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke into the enemy's camp.

false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall. [Written also vaimure, and vamure.] Camden.

government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction. Encyc. Brit.

The campanularian medusæ.

ith, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Milton. With ether vested, and a purple sky. Dryden.

A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [Written also vise.]

. Shak. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.

cene; prospect; as, the view from a window. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. Campbell.

makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidæ. There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. Acts xxviii. 3.

An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. [Written also vice.]

noccupied; -- said of offices and the like. Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden.

ain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders. Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, And wait with longing looks their promised guide. Dryden.

To rouse from sleep; to awake. The angel . . . came again and waked me. Zech. iv. 1.

ylike appearance on the stage. [Cant] -- Walking leaf. (a) (Bot.) A little American fern (Camptosorus rhizophyllus); -- so called because the fronds taper into slender prolongations which often root at the apex, thus producing new plants. (b) (Zoöl.) A leaf insect. See under Leaf. -- Walking papers, or Walking ticket,…

To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. Camden.

reled with; -- darling. [Obs.] Better be an old man's darling than a young man's warling. Camde

lly (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.] A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. Holland.

d after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] C. A. Bristed. Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox. -- Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.