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An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe. [Written also goramy.]

Smeared or defiled with grease. With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. [Obs.] "A hall! a hall!" B. Jonson.

Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.

so great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared. -- Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn. -- Horned pout (Zoöl.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. -- Horned rattler (Zoöl.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotal…

ants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household. One that feared God with all his house. Acts x. 2.

he gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. -- Hunting dog (Zoöl.), the hyena dog. -- Hunting ground, a region or distri…

A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

d out by choice of best alive The Nature's work by art can imitate. Spenser. This hand appeared a shining sword to weild, And that sustained an imitated shield. Dryden.

nt; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak. Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. Milton.

spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.

ole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. Burke. This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. South.

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. [Obs.] "Foe not informidable." Milton.

ive, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. Instrumental errors, those errors in instrumental measurements, etc., which arise, exclusively from want of mathematical accuracy in an instrument.

or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.