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Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects.

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

Pectinate.

A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Sou…

Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane.

Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

The interval of the fifth.

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

Same as Diaper, n.,

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. The whole people were draped professionally. De Quincey. These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.

Cloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.

The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

To decorate with a diaper pattern.

Having nine petals, or flower leaves.

e from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.