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Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.

onfinement, to receive and entertain her friends. [Obs.] To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.

One who urges. Beau. & Fl.

sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.

A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, or Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. [Written also Valkyr, and Walkyr.]

fferent colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone. Woodward.

ation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.

To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services. " Paid court to venal beauties." Macaulay. The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate. Burke.

A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense. Veneer moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Chilo; -- so called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneer…

A bout; a thrust; a venew. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes. Shak.

Extremely; excessively. [Obs.] "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.

in the visor. Spenser. Her ventail up so high that he descried Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride. Fairfax.

One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl.

The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

Beautiful. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

us of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

cludes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.