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The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.] A certain monstration. Grafton.

A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

To set down in musical characters. To note a bill or draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

rs, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication wi…

cies of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. -- Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia, or Cerbera, venenata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a l…

the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians. Schoolcraft.

To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.

or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton.

s), a short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smoke box, to equalize the draft.

An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.

The act of forming or molding. [R.] Grafton.

oof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.

often being implied; as, a luckless plight. "Your plight is pitied." Shak. To bring our craft all in another plight Chaucer.

ch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.