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ing; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high comands. Macaulay.

A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

ife; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.

liot. What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

An aged person; an older. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.

To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron.

Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

ove in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.

Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.

Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.] To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.

A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

eece and Rome, -- used as a sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak.

A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion.…

Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.

A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.