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general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. [R.] Swift.

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.] O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! Shak.

The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.

A point giving advantage; vantage ground.

Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. [Obs.] Shak.

A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent. Shak.

The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

One who gathers the vintage.

The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.

Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.

In electrotypy, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode. [R.]

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. Shak. Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. Drayton.

That which is wanting; deficiency.

Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Texture. [Obs.] Grew.

ammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight. [Written also ataghan, attaghan.] Chaucer.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.