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under a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive." Sandys. O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives Milton. And so she throve and prospered. Tennyson.

cies of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidæ. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly. -- Tiger bittern. (Zoöl.) See Sun bittern, under Sun. -- Tiger cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those o…

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.

Impenitent. Sandys.

Not reproved. Sandys.

ent, or the like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." Milton. The silent vaults of death. Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift.

ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys.

tual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian. The mountains are his walks. Sandys. He opened a boundless walk for his imagination. Pope.

A whirlpool. [Obs.] "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.

ation in thought, as for comparison or contrast. Can blazing carbuncles with her compare. Sandys.