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A woman who conquers. Fairfax.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

1 Having corners or angles.

One who coshers.

An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

A joint sovereign.

Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ra…

One who, or that which, covers.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

Bearing a crosier.

Crosiered.

Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

One who deciphers.

A woman who deciphers.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance. Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.…

Serving to carry; bearing. [R.] "Bodies deferent." Bacon.