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The siskin. [Prov.]

The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock. [Prov. Eng.]

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

A smooth-skinned variety of peach. Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba.

Quality of being sedentary.

Condition of being solitary.

With a staring look.

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being tributary.

Quality or state of being ubiquitary, or ubiquitous. [R.] Fuller.

The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

A nectarine.

ed stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.