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A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]

A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. [Obs.] Shak.

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

A pointed beard. [Obs.]

Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.

To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.

Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

rough a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.

A prefix. See Pre-.

A religious service mainly in song. [Local, U. S.]

forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preëminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent. [Written also præ-.]

Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail.