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The dribbling dart of love." Shak. (Meas. for Meas. , i. 3, 2). [Perhaps an error for dribbing.]

The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

A species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

t or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.

er or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent.

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

The act of wiping or rubbing out. [Obs.]

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

hysical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; - - followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. I then did feel full sick. Shak.

s, the feverish condition of the commercial world. Strive to keep up a frail and feverish bing. Milton. -- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.…

The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. Earth flax (Min.), amianthus. -- Flax brake, a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous. -- Flax comb, a hatchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbina…