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Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.

form, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.

Sarmentose.

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.

A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.

One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

Of or pertaining to telharmonium.

An instrument for producing music (Tel*har"mo*ny []), at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with…

A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment. Brande & C.

Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.

To disarm. Sir T. Browne.

Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.

To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant. Beau. & Fl.

Done (as bowling) with the arm not raised above the elbow, that is, not swung far out from the body; underhand. Cf. Over-arm and Round-Arm.

A garment worn below another.