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white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule.

To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc; -- called also talc slate.

n substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] Golden Boke.

To change or translate from one dialect into another. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A woman who translates.

To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.

To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad. Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown. Pope.

at which whets or sharpens; esp., an appetizer. "Sips, drams, and whets." Spectator. Whet slate (Min.), a variety of slate used for sharpening cutting instruments; novaculite; -- called also whetstone slate, and oilstone.

A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.

on the corners of the upper garment worn by strict Jews. The Hebrew for this word is translated in both the Authorized and Revised Versions (Deut. xxii. 12) by the word "fringes."