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A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower. Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give . . .; but give me the damsel to wife. Gen. xxxiv. 12.

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

erein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

e out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

A species of damask made on the drawloom.

house adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to…

r of animals. Driven out of Russia proper, many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada. See Raskolnik, below.

To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.

ottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

ost nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, pâque, or pask.

Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. It were an easy leap. Shak.

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

An eelpot or eel basket.

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. Hoyle.

A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

Russia. Emperor goose (Zoöl.), a large and handsome goose (Philacte canagica), found in Alaska. -- Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor…