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A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.

To filter. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon.

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

ip, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at loa…

Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

ary lodgings. A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

To variegate or spot, as with hail. A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues. Chapman.

A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Epidermoid. Owen.

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.

Equating for grades (Railroad Engin.), adding to the measured distance one mile for each twenty feet of ascent. -- Equating for curves, adding half a mile for each 360 degrees of curvature.

Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

al oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like. The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb "to be," it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle. J. S. Mill.

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous. Owen. Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.