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BevelingBevel Bev"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beveled (?) or Bevelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Beveling or Bevelling.]
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of. Develin
Develin Dev"el*in, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]
DisgavelingDisgavel Dis*gav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgaveledor
Disgaveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgaveling.] [See
Gavelkind.] (Eng. Law)
To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by
which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant;
-- said of lands. --Burrill. DrivelingDrivel Driv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Driveledor Drivelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Driveling or Drivelling.] [Cf. OE.
dravelen, drabelen, drevelen, drivelen, to slaver, and E.
drabble. Cf. Drool.]
1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth,
like a child, idiot, or dotard.
2. [Perh. a different word: cf. Icel. drafa to talk thick.]
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero;
driveling love. --Shak. Dryden. Fiveling
Fiveling Five"ling, n. (Min.)
A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
Graveling
Graveling Grav"el*ing, or Gravelling Grav"el*ling, n.
1. The act of covering with gravel.
2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
Graveling
Graveling Grav"el*ing, or Gravelling Grav"el*ling, n.
(Zo["o]l.)
A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
GravelingGravel Grav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graveledor Gravelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling.]
1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run
aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
When we were fallen into a place between two seas,
they graveled the ship. --Acts xxvii.
41 (Rhemish
version).
Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to
be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in
the sand that he fell to the ground. --Camden.
3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.]
When you were graveled for lack of matter. --Shak.
The physician was so graveled and amazed withal,
that he had not a word more to say. --Sir T.
North.
4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the
shoe and foot. GrovelingGroveling Grov"el*ing, a.
Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] ``A
groveling creature.' --Cowper. HovelingHovel Hov"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoveledor Hovelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling.]
To put in a hovel; to shelter.
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak.
The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson. HovelingHoveling Hov"el*ing, n.
A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering
the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two
of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also
hovelling.] Javelin
Javelin Jave"lin, v. t.
To pierce with a javelin. [R.] --Tennyson.
JavelinJavelin Jave"lin, n. [F. javeline; akin to Sp. jabalina, It.
giavelina, and F. javelot, OF. gavlot. Cf. Gavelock.]
A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand;
anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot
soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other
fierce game.
Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the
vigor of a Roman arm? --Addison. Javelinier
Javelinier Jave`lin*ier", n.
A soldier armed with a javelin. --Holland.
LevelingLevel Lev"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leveled (-[e^]ld) or
Levelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Leveling or Levelling.]
1. To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the
condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat
or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.
2. To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down;
to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
And their proud structures level with the ground.
--Sandys.
He levels mountains and he raises plains. --Dryden.
3. To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to
point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall,
leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow. --Stow.
4. Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in
respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.;
as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
5. To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level
remarks to the capacity of children.
For all his mind on honor fixed is, To which he
levels all his purposes. --Spenser. LivelinessLiveliness Live"li*ness, n. [From Lively.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or animated;
sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the
liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
--B. Jonson.
2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the
liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Syn: Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness;
briskness; activity. -- Liveliness, Gayety,
Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an habitual
feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a
temporary excitement of the animal spirits; animation
implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding
vividness of expressing it, awakened by the presence of
something which strongly affects the mind; vivacity is a
feeling between liveliness and animation, having the
permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth
of the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of
heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of gesture or
conversation. LovelinessLoveliness Love"li*ness, n. [From Lovely.]
The state or quality of being lovely.
If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to
make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless
their power when they are on the side of truth!
--Spectator. MarvelingMarvel Mar"vel, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marveledor Marvelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Marveling or Marvelling.] [OE. merveilen,
OF. merveillier.]
To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to
wonder.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. --1
john iii. 13. Ravelin
Ravelin Rave"lin, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino,
rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall.] (Fort.)
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient
angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of
the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
ravelinHalf-moon Half"-moon`, n.
1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears
illuminated.
2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs,
and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.
3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a
salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now
called a ravelin.
4. (Zo["o]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California
(C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate,
blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also
medialuna. RavelingRavel Rav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raveledor Ravelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling.] [. ravelen, D.
rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.]
1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to
untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out;
as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Raveling
Raveling Rav"el*ing, n. [Also ravelling.]
1. The act of untwisting, or of disentangling.
2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a
texture.
RevelingRevel Rev"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reveledor Revelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Reveling or Revelling.] [OF. reveler to
revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See Rebel.]
1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the
bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak.
2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. ``Where
joy most revels.' --Shak. RivelingRivel Riv"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riveled;p. pr. & vb. n.
Riveling.] [AS. gerifled, geriflod, gerifod, wrinkled,
geriflian, gerifian, to wrinkle. See Rifle a gun, Rive.]
To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled
fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] --Pope. ``Riveled
parchments.' --Walpole. Salvelinus fontinalis Note: The most important European species are the river, or
brown, trout (Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the
sewen. The most important American species are the
brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout (Salvelinus
fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada;
the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma);
the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted,
mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo purpuratus); the
golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the
blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout
(see under Salmon.) The European trout has been
introduced into America.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of marine fishes
more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits,
but not belonging to the same family, especially the
California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the
southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also
salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray
trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.
Trout perch (Zo["o]l.), a small fresh-water American fish
(Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but
resembling a perch in its scales and mouth. Salvelinus fontinalisChar Char, Charr Charr, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit.,
red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red
belly.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the several species of fishes of the genus
Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon,
inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In
the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
is sometimes called a char.
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