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A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

g of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

ux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

y; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." Jer. Taylor. The cross and unlucky issue of my design. Glanvill. The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. South. We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. Dryden.…

rsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

f the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

Crafty; sly; artful; designid; deceitful. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. South.

y peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk;

etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

le; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. Left him at large to his own dark designs. Milton.

intensely bright; to excite admiration by brilliancy. Ah, friend! to dazzle, let the vain design. Pope.

A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

f an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

ng; as, the definite article. Definite article (Gram.), the article the, which is used to designate a particular person or thing, or a particular class of persons or things; -- also called a definitive. See Definitive, n. -- Definite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Determinate inflorescence, under Determinate. -- Law of de…

Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade. Bp. Hall.

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. Adventurous to delineate nature'…

ve. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair. Demonstrative pronoun (Gram.), a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.

To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.