(n.) Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

(n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

(n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

(n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

(n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

(n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.

(n.) The European spotted flycatcher.

(n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.

(n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

(n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

(n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.

(n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

(v. t.) To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

(a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

(v. t.) To swallow up.

(v. t.) To echo.

(n.) A Cantabrigian.

(v. i.) To recline, as at table.

(n.) A merganser.

(n.) Alt. of Scarabee

(v. t.) To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

(v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.

(v. t.) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

(v. t.) To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.

(n.) Familiar talk or conversation.

(v. i.) To lean; to recline; to repose.

(adv.) By chance.

(n.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

(v. t.) To take from the tomb; to exhume; to disinter.

(v. t.) To throw down.

(n.) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.

(n.) A diiambus.

(v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

(v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.

(v. t.) To conceive in the womb.

(v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.

(n.) Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.

(v. t.) Alt. of Excambie

(n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.

(n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

(n.) A gossip.

(v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

(v. i.) A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.

(a.) Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

(a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.

(a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.

(n.) an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).

(n.) A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

(n.) India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold.

(a.) Of the nature of kincob; brocaded.

(adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.

(adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)

(v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another).

(v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.

(n.) Familiar, social intercourse.