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, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

Northerly. [Obs.] Hakewill.

hite and is remarkable for the length of its tail. Called also longtailed duck, south southerly, callow, hareld, and old wife. -- Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style. -- Old Testament. See under Testament. -- Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse pr…

Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton.

f numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

A banterer; a jester; a mocker. [R.] Wycherley.

A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.

A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.

ads (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems. -- Saint Dabeoc's heath (Bot.), a heatherlike plant (Dabæcia polifolia), named from an Irish saint. -- Saint Distaff's Day. See under Distaff. -- Saint Elmo's fire, a luminious, flamelike appearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent poin…

Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.

Northerliness.

Northerly.

ow give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.

Southerliness.

In a southerly manner or course; southward.

Southerly. [Obs. & R.]

ft. -- To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an error in a statement of fact. Wycherley. -- To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. -- To stand firmly on, to be satisfied or convinced of. "Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty." Shak. -- To stand for. (a)…