Light-winged

a.

Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.

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Radiance

n.

Alt. of Radiancy

Fought

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

Salve

n.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.

Holethnic

a.

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.

Horseback

n.

An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.

Bacchanalia

n. pl.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Homologize

v. t.

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

Flurries

pl.

of Flurry

Hornobbed

imp. & p. p.

of Hobnob

Wardroom

n.

A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.

Redroot

n.

A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

Warble

v. i.

To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.