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Molybdenum sulphide.

Proglottis.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

To clothe again.

Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

Clothed in sackcloth.

A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

Duck or canvas used in making sails.

Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of Californi…

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.

Cerecloth. Mortimer.

Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

The harness of a drawloom.

A person licensed as a pilot. [Slang]

To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.

Slowness; tardiness. These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. Shak.