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ing, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

A dressing gown, or morning gown.

the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

. -- Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning-glory.

pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. The morning sharp and clear. Cowper. In sharpest perils faithful proved. Keble.

Widnesday, especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and the morning of Ash Wednesday.

the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

hted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight night. A starlight evening and a morning fair. Dryden.

To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] Shak.

. . streaked and dappled with white and black. Sandys. Now streaked and glowing with the morning red. Prior.

The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.

Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.

penser. Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew. Dryden.

by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

dition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.

grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

lish form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.

A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place,shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.

ns of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle (Cassida aurichalcea) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants. -- Tortoise plant. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot, under Elephant. -- Tortoise shell, the substance of the shell or horny plates of several species of sea turtles, especially of the hawkbill tur…