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r trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak.

A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

Of or pertaining to the hock of a beast. [Obs.]

One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

The heel joint.

Sufferance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]

To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.

Infrangible. [Obs.] "Impassible and unfrangible." Jer. Taylor.

Not frankable; incapable of being sent free by public conveyance.

Not fraught; not burdened.

A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.

Same as Wolframite.

Same as Tungsten steel.

A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

gh specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

mpanies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provisi…

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.