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One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

d or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

e misses her aim in the stoop. [Obs.] The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

nce or dart made of cane. [R.] Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden.

Skillful; knowing; capable. Sir W. Scott.

A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color. [Written also cantaleup.]

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.

Military skill; as, to show good captainship.

ack of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. [R.] Ruskin.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson. A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson.

To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]

rican bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.