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Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

The act of covering with copper.

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [R.]

Same as Diaper, n.,

To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.

Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

An empress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.

Perished; decayed. [Obs.] I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.

lly applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

rface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.

One who experiences.

Experienced. [Obs.] The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau & Fl.

Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.