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ch a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson.

th a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

amination of an object, as the human body, by exposing it to the X rays and observing the shadow cast upon a fluorescent screen; cryptoscopy.

ing; a weak point; a frailty. A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De Quincey.

r force of, as of a course of thought or argument. He followed with his eyes the flitting shade. Dryden.

ith reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. (b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.

"Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] Prior.

n relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

med with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of d…

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

ity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

he art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

The shaddock.