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The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. [Obs.] Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. Fuller.

Slight. [Obs.] Echard.

The poachard.

pleasing in form or look; showy. Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye. Bp. Richardson. The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied. Milton.

small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

A fire poker. [R.] C. Richardson (Dict.).

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature. "The subscriptive part." Richardson. -- Sub*scrip"tive*ly, adv.

to the family Coerebidæ. They are allied to the honey eaters. -- Sugar bush. See Sugar orchard. -- Sugar camp, a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made. -- Sugar candian, sugar candy. [Obs.] -- Sugar candy, sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar. -- Sugar cane (Bot…

Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. Chaucer.

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope.

d to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

awdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).

To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.

Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.