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Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.

A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

st degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton.

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.

Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.

To be lustful; to be lascivious. [Obs.]

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.

A gliding effect; gliding.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax; specif., denoting an acid obtained by oxidation of myricin.

See Myricyl.

See Melene.

Violet wood.

Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief.

An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.

A polishing or grinding implement or instrument.