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Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

A private instructor.

tic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white crystalline substance, NaNO3, having a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste. It is obtained by leaching the soil of the rainless dis…

Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter. [Obs.]

To lade or dip out. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.

A basket. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A pruning knife with a curved blade. Knight.

toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

A small boat; a skiff. [Obs.] A little skippet floating did appear. Spenser.

A small part or piece. To be cut into snippets and shreds. F. Harrison.

Ridiculously small; petty. "Snippety facts." London Spectator.

To spit; to throw out. [Obs.]

Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

A small stream. [Obs.] "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.

Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet. Out on thy more than strumpet impudence. B. Jonson.

Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

Having the petals united; gamopetalous.

Worked or figured stuff; tapestry. [R.] Spenser.