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Not vulgar; refined; elegant. [Obs.] Drayton.

Having a kell or covering; webbed. [Obs.] Drayton.

each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton.

r form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle. "Knotted curls." Drayton. As tight as I could knot the noose. Tennyson.

Full of knots. [Obs.] Drayton.

tatingly with a low voice, as if afraid. Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt. Drayton.

A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.

ength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle. "Many a warlike match." Drayton. A solemn match was made; he lost the prize. Dryden.

ing bowl; -- originally made of maple. [Obs.] Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring. Drayton.

Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. "Mellow glebe." Drayton

Soft; unctuous. Drayton.

A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson.

The European blackbird. See Blackbird. Drayton.

The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural. Drayton.

A little bagpipe. [Obs.] Drayton.

To model; also, to modulate. [Obs.] Sandys. Drayton.

sulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. Drayton.

A scurfy eruption. [Obs.] Drayton.

spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

enchantment. See Black art. This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy placèd there. Drayton.