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In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. [Written also paijama.]

and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit of drawers and blouse for such wear.

Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.

A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

ed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.

Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monoth…

Esteem; regard; consideration; honor. Seen without awe, and served without respect. Prior. The same men treat the Lord's Day with as little respect. R. Nelson.

instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips (1658). The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back. Macaulay.

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation. Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father than treated as his partner in the empire. Addison.

m, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.

Any seaweed with red spores.

Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.

Something said; speech; discourse. [Obs.] "To hearken all his sawe." Chaucer.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.

A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.