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y; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

mporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

aking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]

; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

positing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.

nus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with…

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.

pres. indic. 1st & 3d pers. sing. of Forwete. [Obs.] Chaucer.

reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the Athenians." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

ed or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.

age (Bot.), a low herb with yellow flowers (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium), blossoming in wet places in early spring. -- Golden seal (Bot.), a perennial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the penta…

A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. [Obs.] He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet. Chaucer. Against the grain, against or across the direction of the fibers; hence, against one's wishes or tastes; unwillingly; unpleasantly; reluctantly; with difficulty. Swift.Saintsbury.-- A grain of allowance, a slight in…

To yield grass for grazing. The ground cortinueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose. Bacon.

on; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. Where law faileth, error groweth. Gower.