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also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue. Dryden.

An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.

A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. [Modern Greece]

interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

tive; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.

An unguent.

Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.

To surpass or conquer in argument.

To silence by talk, clamor, or noise. [R.] Shak.

Excessive fatigue.

A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs.

To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.

See Pirogue.

A philologist. [R.] Carlyle.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]

ctive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. Shak.