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A suppurative.

Whispering. [R.] "The soft susurrant sigh." Poetry of Anti- Jacobin.

A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.

so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.

nd an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]

large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliæ). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.] Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which captures the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) an…

Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.

Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n.

To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle. [Written also traunt.] [Obs.]

One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Written also traunter.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.

ch the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor. "This false tyrant, this Nero." Chaucer. Love, to a yielding heart, is a king, but to a resisting, is a tyrant. Sir P. Sidney.

Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.

Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

In a vagrant manner.