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ring; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

Avarice. [Obs.] Spenser.

The money or price paid for the use of a crane.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. [Prov. Eng.] Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks. Carlyle.

A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.

ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

ugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.

Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.

Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak.

Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. The dearness of corn. Swift.

nd Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus suppose…

To breed or cut new teeth. [R.] The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice. Bacon.

to disown; to abjure; to disavow. The falsehood of denying his opinion. Bancroft. Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved. Keble. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.

To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to dep…

The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

To lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.