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A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.

A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. B. Jonson.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

A female huckster.

An idolater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. [R.] Fuller.

European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

A want of luster. -- a.

A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.

A narrow strip of land. [Obs.]

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.

A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

Destitute of luster; dim; dull.

Same as Luster.