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hich covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. [Obs.] I'll have him cut to the kell. Beau. & Fl.

iver. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are esse…

A scoundrel. [Obs. or Scot.] Pepys. Burns.

To squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.

alm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young.

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

Embroidery. [Archaic] The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.

A convex body or surface. Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame. Tickell.

l thy bread to the hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

A small, retired valley; a ravine. In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. Tickell.

To burrow. Tickell.

f; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell.

a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. Tickell. Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; -- so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

To tread; as, to foot the green. Tickell.

to take place; to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. Mrs. Caskell. -- To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. -- To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not…

He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.