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Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.

The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.

Tidings. [Obs.] Chaucer.

has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.

Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

A riding. See Trithing.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

Inconclusive. [Obs.] Locke. -- Un`con*clud"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Same as Substruction.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]

which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] Rowe. Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.

Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.

a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.

The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding.

Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.

a. & n. from Weed, v. Weeding chisel, a tool with a divided chisel-like end, for cutting the roots of large weeds under ground. -- Weeding forceps, an instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding. -- Weeding fork, a strong, three-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron.…