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To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

Depending on, or derived from, prescription; proper to be prescribed. Grafton.

everal feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

ion of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

t construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.

Craft; subtlety; cunning. [Obs.] Chaucer. R. of Glouces.

A float; a raft. Three vessels under sail, and one at anchor, above Split Rock, and behind it the radeau Thunderer. W. Irving.

ere ranked in the class of philosophers. Broome. Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. Dr. H. More.

to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.

eceiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.

To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

gligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.

The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of ex…

To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

A rafter. [Obs.] Holland.

To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - - with on.