[ F. ablet, ablette, a dim. fr. LL. abula, for albula, dim. of albus white. Cf. Abele. ] (Zool.) A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Boln, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Swollen; puffed out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native Australian name, from its cry. ] (Zool.) The lyre bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let it make thee crestfullen;
Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fallen; ruined. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen. ] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. [ 1913 Webster ]

And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

a. Dejected; chopfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mary Magdalene, traditionally reported to have been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See Luke vii. 36. ] A reformed prostitute. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Maslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Mullein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr. &unr_; ] 1. Fine bran or flour. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. --
Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. --
Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. --
Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. pullinus belonging to young animals. See Pullet. ] Poultry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; channel, a shellfish. ] 1. (Med.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Steal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See Sole, a. ] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. [ 1913 Webster ]

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Obstinate; intractable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. “The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. -- Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition; the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury. Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit. [ 1913 Webster ]

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows;
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Swell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Tellina. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blown down by the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool. ] [ Written also woollen. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also woollen. ] Cloth made of wool; woollen goods. [ 1913 Webster ]