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A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

To coat or paint with clearcole.

To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

One who clearstarches.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

A patching together; patchwork. [Obs.] Bailey.

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. All the coparceners together make but one heir, and have but one estate among them. blackstone.

An equal share of an inheritance.

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

Bear baiting with a dog. Hudibras.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.

of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.

March; walk; gait. [Obs.]