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Smoking tobacco. [Obs.] "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." [Obs.] Sylvester.

A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

Any notodontian.

The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

The leatherback.

(Naut.) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, so made to shed the seas quickly.

Never mounted by a rider; unbroken. "Unbacked colts." Shak.

A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.

An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

See under 1st Back.

The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.

Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him. -- Welsbach burner, a burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapor is employed to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates…

A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.

The canvasback.

A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.

, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) Fren…

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

To blunt. [Obs.] To abate the edge of envy. Bacon.

society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.