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ustice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hal…

of philosophers about the perception of external objects. Reid. Sentiment, as here and elsewhere employed by Reid in the meaning of opinion (sententia), is not to be imitated. Sir W. Hamilton.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.

all with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a fo…

A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.

shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. -- Shawl goat (Zoöl.), the Cashmere goat.

and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

Same as Sewen.

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

ing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. -- Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.

To sew. See Sew. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. [Obs.] Dryden.

To pierce with a sharp instrument; hence, to stitch; to sew; also, to fix; to fasten. [Scot.]

Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.

horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.