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upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely. Aye undiscreet, and changing as a vane. Chaucer.

Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.

A vanessa.

The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. Totten.

To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.

The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

; imperceptibly. Chalmers.

Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. -- n. sing. & pl.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

er wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

cies of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma). See Comma butterfly, under Comma. -- Elm moth (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of moths of which the larvæ destroy the leaves of the elm (esp. Eugonia subsignaria, called elm spanworm). -- Elm…

Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color. [Obs.] They are very transistory and evanid. Barrow.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24.