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ja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (Aristolochia Sipho). Its flowers have their calyx tubes curved like a tobacco pipe.

p. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. East by north, East by south, according to…

To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs.] To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.

se; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.

Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. [Obs.]

Stimulation. [Obs.] Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.

Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. [R.] "Passages that are somewhat fade." Jeffrey. His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous. De Quincey.

Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky m…

Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. -- St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. Hoblyn. -- St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo. -- To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle. -- To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a pas…

Tasteless; insipid; as, a flaggy apple. [Obs.] Bacon.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.