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t sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.

A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.

A little valve; a valvelet.

Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.

A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.

Shak. A wanton and a merry [friar]. Chaucer. [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! Addison.

One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.

One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.

Somewhat weazen; shriveled. [Colloq.] "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.

The shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]

Vocabulary. -- Spear widgeon, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.] -- Spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler. -- White widgeon, the smew. -- Wood widgeon, the wood duck.

to bereave. The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears. Dryden. Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. J. Philips. Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. Heber.

Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.

Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.