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Death.[Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to Lethe; resembling in effect the water of Lethe. Milton. Barrow.

Caused by Lethe. " Letheed dullness." [Obs.] Shak.

Sulphuric ether used as an anæsthetic agent. [R.]

To subject to the influence of letheon. [R. or Obs.]

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. Shak.

To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry. They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro. Milton.

Lethean. [Obs.] Marston.

se, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. Keble.

soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers. Wordsworth. The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin. Earle.

A portable form of telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.

nk of a river, or the shore of the sea. [Obs.] "The fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shak. Wharf boat, a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Wharf rat. (Zoöl…