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A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.

A little cushion.

The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of th…

A female deacon; as:

To disparage. [Obs.]

A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.

Semitone. [R.]

A female demon.

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money. They [gold mohurs] have been completely demonetized by the [East India] Company. R. Cobden.

instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight.

To unload; to disburden. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).