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imp. & p. p. of Spy.

Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

n a crowd. As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money. Gen. xlii. 27. A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad. Wordsworth.

Representing life; lifelike. [Obs.] I spied the lively picture of my father. Massinger.

exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton.

. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple. Dryden.

ted so as to remit to the former owners their rights. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton.

tate of concealment; to espy; to see. One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration. Swift.

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

to explore. O, let me view his visage, being dead. Shak. Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn. Milton.

; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.