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A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also mountain parrot.

See Likable.

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]

hort dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.] "His skean, or pistol." Spenser.

See Rokeage. [Local, U. S.]

Toward the air; upward. [R.] Keats.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

re whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

r form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.

erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

Containing, or covered with, cities. [R.] "The citied earth." Keats.

ntinent. [Obs.] The tryne compas [the threefold world containing earth, sea, and heaven. Skeat.] Chaucer. Azimuth compass. See under Azimuth. -- Beam compass. See under Beam. -- Compass card, the eircular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs. -- Com…

Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.

To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.

Crafty; deceitful. [R.] Keats.

Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.