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An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. [R.]

depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

A creeping forth. [Obs.]

A snatching away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

Bygone. [Obs.] Shak.

Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. [Obs.] Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.

To prize or rate beforehand. [Obs.] Hooker.

Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

Want of preparation. [Obs.] Hooker.

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]