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dly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [Obs.] Spenser. Dryden.

e a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.

ring the so- called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heteroecious, etc.

Urinary pigments, (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc., present in the urine together with indican, a colorless substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored bodies.

See Euphroe.

The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.

tle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. [Written also Valkyr, and Walkyr.]

Against; as, John Doe versus Richard Roe; -- chiefly used in legal language, and abbreviated to v. or vs.

clude human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.

ft; nimble; agile; strong and active. [Obs. or Poetic] 'T is full wight, God wot, as is a roe. Chaucer. He was so wimble and so wight. Spenser. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Pilgrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

specifically among railroad men, in the army and navy, with provision for Indians and negroes, and a full duplication of all the various lines of oepration in the boys' departments.