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To lose. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Leze majesty.

Of or pertaining to Bengal. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bengal.

the language of the Cingalese. -- a.

The common rape or cole.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

To lose utterly. [Obs.] haucer.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

Same as Cingalese.

A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument. -- Tel`e*seis"mic (#), a.

A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

lowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.

oForlese. [Obs.] The beasts their caves, the birds their neforlore. Fairfax.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton.

To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.