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trump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore. Swift.

h coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.

Same as Belvedere.

uff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.] Our rich mockado doublet. Ford.

See Mokadour. [Obs.]

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

The doctrine or theory of monads.

ined from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowing. [R.]

A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.

A palisade. [Obs.] Shak.

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

arance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact. A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

Paradoxical. [Obs.]