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as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. Chaucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

, The keeper of a park. Sir M. Hale.

A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

To scatter abroad. [Obs.] Holland.

To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark. [Obs.]

To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up. They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles. Holland.

A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.

To exceed in sparkling.

ted substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7.

A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.

induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

neto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.

A spark arrester.

Lively; brisk; gay. [Obs.] "Our sparkful youth." Camden.

Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh.