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A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine. The penalty and forfeit of my bond. Shak.

A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, etc., woven from the fiber obtained from the leaf of the sterile pineapple plant. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a tinge of pale yellow.

consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.

. -- Pit head, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. -- Pit kiln, an oven for coking coal. -- Pit martin (Zoöl.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pit of the stomach (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasterna…

Woven; plaited. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.

ality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.

o engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. "To promise aid." Shak.

Provender or food. [Obs.] One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day. Beau. & Fl.

To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. [Obs.] Nash.

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.

s for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished. Wharton.

father about expenses. I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Lev. xxvi. 25. On open seas their quarrels they debate. Dryden.

an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.

esting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.

y a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.