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A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

s of the face. [R.] 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, His features too in buckle see. Churchill.

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.

A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting (Zoöl.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem. Luke xxiii. 33.

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath.

lly; to warble. And carol of love's high praise. Spenser. The gray linnets carol from the hill. Beattie.

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

Containing caverns. The wolves yelled on the caverned hill. Byron.

n of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum [Written also chilli and chile.]

lls. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.