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her; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.

hich are injurious to fruit trees. -- Jumping mouse (Zoöl.), North American mouse (Zapus Hudsonius), having a long tail and large hind legs. It is noted for its jumping powers. Called also kangaroo mouse. -- Jumping mullet (Zoöl.), gray mullet. -- Jumping shrew (Zoöl.), any African insectivore of the genus Macroscel…

One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.

Entangled; puzzling; knotty. [R.] They're catched in knotted lawlike nets. Hudibras.

A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille. [Obs.] Hudibras.

from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to fawn upon. South. -- To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.

A prison. [Obs.] Hudibras.

ty. Denham. But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. Hudibras.

me tender and delicate, though simple, thought. Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

A whim; an odd fancy. Hudibras. Tennyson.

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. Judg. iii. 20.

A louse. Hudibras.

Silence. [R.] Hudibras.

The dung of birds. Hudibras.

To be in a careless, secure state. Wyclif. I took thee napping, unprepared. Hudibras.

e place; hence, figuratively, something laid up as the beginning of a fund or collection. Hudibras.

taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.

onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

r basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass Hudibras.