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Free from dross. Stevens.

ed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island. [R.] "In the sea of life enisled." M. Arnold.

The sleeve below the elbow.

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

A pledge. [Obs.] Bp. Gibson.

One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

Destitute of grass.

See Grizzled.

See Haslet.

he edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog. [Written also harslet.]

To form into an island; to surround. [Obs.] Drayton.

See Aisle.

A little island.

A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures. Lisle glove, a fine summer glove, made of Lisle thread. -- Lisle lace, a fine handmade lace, made at Lisle. -- Lisle thread, a hard twisted cotton thread, originally produced at Lisle.

Free from loss. [Obs.] Milton.

A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.

Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- Mea"sled*ness, n.

bove the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola. Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever. Am. Cyc.