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An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.

An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of Kamtschatka.

ropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil, or niger, seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.

Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid. Knight.

men shall dream dreams. Acts ii. 17. At length in sleep their bodies they compose, And dreamt the future fight. Dryden. And still they dream that they shall still succeed. Cowper. To dream away, out, through, etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through lif…

America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. Labrador duck (Zoöl.), a sea duck (Camtolaimus Labradorius) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. -- Labrador feldspar. See Labradorite. -- La…

play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming. He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig. Cowper.

To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.