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A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

Having a double margin, as certain shells.

Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Bloomery.

See Bloomery.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

See Beggar's ticks.

A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen.…

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.

Comradeship and loyalty.

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

The private audience chamber of a king.

er propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.

A French coasting lugger.

See Simar.

The Russian variety of bagatelle.

A covenant. [Obs.] Shak.

The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.