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ne, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [Written also spillikin, spilliken.]

A rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

hey inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

ccumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.

n a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

rnia food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

A bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath. These sudatories are much in request for many infirmities. Evelyn.

An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse. Holinshed.

put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.

a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

rs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). Swamp blackbird. (Zoöl.) See Redwing (b). -- Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage. -- Swamp deer (Zoöl.), an Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India. -- Swamp hen…

To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quant…

Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table (Tivoli board or table), which has a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.

The head, or upper part, of a plant. The buds . . . are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads. I. Watts.

y, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.

A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

any process of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state. (d) To reverse, as a pocket, bag, etc., so as to bring the inside to the outside; hence, to produce. (e) To cause to cease, or to put out, by turning a stopcock, valve, or the like; as, to turn out the lights. -- To turn over. (a) To change or reverse the po…