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A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).

its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. Clcareous spar. See as Calcite.

guished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

Fluor spar. See Kand.

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. [He] providently caters for the sparrow. Shak.

An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar. [Also written cauk.]

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

The hedge sparrow.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

d anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.

A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

The act of chirping; a chirp. The sparrows' chirrup on the roof. Tennyson.

A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.

Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by pecular organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seven…