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The parson bird.

See Tuyère.

A pair of blacksmith's tongs.

See To-fall. [Eng.]

The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

ke up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden.

Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A straw; a fescue. [Obs.] Holland.

One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitué of a theater.

Of the nature, or having the appearance, of a spirit; pure; refined; ethereal.

lptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.

Without a statue.

Like a statue; motionless.

Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude. Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background. Hare.

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.

A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.