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See Muscatel, n. Quaffed off the muscadel. Shak.

See Muscardin. Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.

A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

Any one of several species of California sciænoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, or Johnius, saturna).

A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.

An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard…

See Stockade.

A stab; a thrust with a rapier. Shak.

Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. Blakely. Succade gourd. (Bot.) Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable.

To unbolt; to unbar; to open. You shall not unbarricade the door. J. Webster (1623).

Not obstructed by barricades; open; as, unbarricadoed streets. Burke.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

ng a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.