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A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops.

Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim. G. Eliot.

The lapwing.

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. Donne.

I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

One who, or that which, gallops.

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

See Gantlet. [Obs.]

To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.

A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

Same as Holometabolic.

Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.