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Wanting the spinal cord.

One who, or that which, annoys.

Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]

An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.

Again; back against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Backward. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

dents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.

To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.

One who, or that which, betrays.

One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [Obs. or Archaic] Addison.

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.