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A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

Falsehood; lying; cretism.

Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. The cross refraction of the second prism. Sir I. Newton.

An order of flying, dromTinamou.

The act of lying down; a reclining. [Obs.]

Lying down; recumbent. [R.]

h measures a foot in each of its dimensions. -- Cubic number, a number produced by multiplying a number into itself, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.

uch serving. Luke x. 40. Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii. 7. The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. Locke.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson.

es, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. Shak.

in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. -- Dead letter. (a) A letter which, after lying for a certain fixed time uncalled for at the post office to which it was directed, is then sent to the general post office to be opened. (b) That which has lost its force or authority; as, the law has become a dead letter.…

Act of lying down; decumbence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.

The act or posture of lying down. The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne.

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.

Lying hid; concealed.