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The old plural of Eye. And eke with fatness swollen were his een. Spenser.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.

Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

iple of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.

Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]

In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

See Carrageen.

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

Expense of careening ships.

ndrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

See Shagreen.

A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]