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attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. Chapman.

puzzle; -- alluding to the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

To surround; to encircle, or encompass. That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton. Milton.

genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

n into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.

ected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

The deepsea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.

which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews.

An islet in a river. J. Brand.

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy. Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition. Jer. Taylor.

An aisle. [Obs.] H. Swinburne.

Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

that. "Some things they do in that they are men . . . ; some things in that they are men misled and blinded with error." Hooker. -- In the name of, in behalf of; on the part of; by authority; as, it was done in the name of the people; -- often used in invocation, swearing, praying, and the like. -- To be in for it. (…

Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive. Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or other. Tillotson.

rness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts. Dryden.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.