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ic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.

Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people. Lam. i. 1. Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein. Job iii. 7.

ort Shall I appear Milton. I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. Dryden.

ubstance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.

ate of concealment; to espy; to see. One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration. Swift.

A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. Who copied his squibs, and reëchoed his jokes. Goldsmith.

iable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.

One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.

used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

n which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.

pulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.

ples. Bryant. Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.

Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.

e apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families.

Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Sanderson. To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.