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in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object. And they laded their asses with the corn. Gen. xlii. 26.

One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [Obs. or Local]

Loaded; freighted; burdened; as, a laden vessel; a laden heart. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity. Is. i. 4. A ship laden with gold. Shak.

ring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

A writer of ballads.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

rm is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

A sword cutler. [Obs.]

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]

ace, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

A simultaneous discharge of firearms.