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The act or process of drying. [R.] Bailey.

Relating to a seal; used in sealing. [Obs.] Bailey.

Made of fine wheat. [Obs.] Bailey.

To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] Bailey.

The blades of green or barley. [Obs.] Bailey.

One who treats of, or collects, seeds. Bailey.

Bearing ears, or spikes; spicate. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of having, or being full of, ears like corn. [R.] Bailey.

A stock of breeding mares. [Written also strode.] [Obs.] Bailey.

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] Bailey.

a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another. Bailey.

A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease. [Obs.] Bailey.

Affectation of sublimity; bombast. [Obs.] Bailey.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

mary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Tin plate, thin sheet iron coated with tin. -- Tin pyrites. See Stannite.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.

An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel. Bailey.

Tumulous. [R.] Bailey.

The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness. [R.] Bailey.