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Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bo…

lace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden.

back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. Swift. The cry went once on thee. Shak.

. . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

m center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. Owen.

A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.

. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. Shak.

In the dark. [Poetic] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.

ughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two success…

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.] A deaf murmur through the squadron went. Dryden.

be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru "The decrees of Venice." Sh There went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Luke ii. 1. Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree Shak.

leasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring. [R.] Dives, for his delicate life, to the devil went. Piers Plowman. Haarlem is a very delicate town. Evelyn.

Delirious. [Obs.] Owen.

A young woman; a wench. [Obs.] Sweet doxies and dells. B. Jonson.

h dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes. Owen.

The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.