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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).

Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson.

Splendid. Drayton.

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n.

Same as Sudoriferous.

Consisting of sweat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bull Sir W. Scott.

The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

A bullfighter.

Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth. Tudor style (Arch.), the latest development of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered ar…

A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

(that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.

A flying fish of California (Exocoetus Californicus): -- called also volator.

A window. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.