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The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

th passionate affection. (b) (Mil.) To hover around; as, to hang upon the flanks of a retreating enemy.

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

ertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.

Treating diseases by anointing and friction; as, the iatraliptic method. [Written also iatroleptic.]

Eating, or subsisting on, fish.

The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.