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The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A builder of houses.

Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent. Gray.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

Same as Hypotenuse.

Misapplied; treated badly.

Not confused; distinct. [Obs.]

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving. "Irregular incuse square." Dr. W. Smith.

To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.

in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse. Denham.

One who, or that which, infuses.

To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter. The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth. Milton.

An intermission. [R.]

A bruise; a contusion. [Obs.] Spenser.

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

aded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

ris, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

A lynx. See 1st Lucern and Loup-cervier.