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A rodomontadist.

Any one of several species of California sciænoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, or Johnius, saturna).

See Escalade. Fairfax.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

face, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

The quality or state of being shadowy.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.

Having no shadow.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.

Same as Spade, 2.

An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard…

A stab; a thrust with a rapier. Shak.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]

To punish or torture by the strappado. Milton.

Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

See Tetrodon.

See Tetrodont.

A bullfighter.

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.