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High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. The heyday in the blood is tame. Shak. In the heyday of their victories. J. H. Newman.

A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] Spenser.

High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A wretch; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hey; ho.

nhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.

A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]

The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed. Jolif and glad they went unto here [their] rest And casten hem [them] full early for to sail. Chaucer. They of Italy salute you. Heb. xiii. 24. Blessed are they…

cess of making cheese. In this process, the thick part is called curd, and the thin part whey.

Treatment with whey as a drink and in baths.

Having a pale or white face, as from fright. "Whey-faced cavaliers." Aytoun.

Of the nature of, or containing, whey; resembling whey; wheyish. Bacon.

One who is pale, as from fear.

Somewhat like whey; wheyey. J. Philips. -- Whey"ish*ness, n.

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.