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on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.

Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain. That he may with more ease, with brighter evidence, and with surer success, draw the bearner on. I. Watts.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. "Her brimful eyes." Dryden.

matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

ir that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.

branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak.

A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes" Shak. -- To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. -- To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely.

cott. The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Dryden.

er who is absent, or for other purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named. -- Call to the bar, admission to practice in the courts.

er; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

To direct or turn, as the eyes. How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! Shak.

Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.