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. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.

See Culrage.

Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. Prov. xxvi. 6. Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.…

Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.

Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.

The upper border or part of a décolleté corsage.

Unconstrained; easy; free. Vanbrugh.

Demurrage. [Obs.] Pepys (1663).

made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch.

Betrothal. [Obs.] Ethelbert . . . went peaceably to King Offa for desponsage of Athilrid, his daughter. Foxe.

Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.

The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Smart.