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For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.

A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

The handle of a beetle.

A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

To make celestial. [R.]

In a celestial manner.

To make like heaven. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.

Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. Ure.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

See Colstaff.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]