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To grow together. [Obs.] Spenser.

The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.

See Crackle, n., 3.

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. Spenser. Faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew Milton.

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

See Cruet.

to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.

n species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled. [Obs.] Chauscer.

To decrease. [Obs.] Spenser.

ensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. Her tears fell with the dews at even. Tennyson.

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.