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the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

o spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.] To see the falls for force of the river Kent. T. Gray.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

Producing fumes, or vapors. Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libsvius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same…

quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. -- Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.…

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n.

eous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

enophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

, a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- A half cock, the position of the cock of a gun when retained by the first notch. -- Half hitch, a sailor's knot in a rope; ha…

applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada, often called locust. See Cicada. -- Harvest lord, the head reaper at a harvest. [Obs.] Tusser. -- Harvest mite (Zoöl.), a minute European mite (Leptus autumnalis), of a bright crimson color, which is troublesome by penetra…

room. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

f recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.

h both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.

Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.