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A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

y applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

A wide sleeve, once worn by women.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

See Dengue.

A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: Moore.

To confer rank upon by brevet.

The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]

rojecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which…

Same as Cantalever.

A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.

Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.…

To come to an issue; to turn out; to succed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

A river fish; the chub. Sir T. Browne.

A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.