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Delineation; a line or lines.

Anything having outline. [R.] Holland.

A salt of linoleic acid.

Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long- winded.

mself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

A salt of maleic acid.

See Maltreat.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. Chaucer. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat…

Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus. Owen.

Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick- meated.

A sweet liquor; mead. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.

Quality of being meaty.

Having no meat; without food. "Leave these beggars meatless." Sir T. More.

A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.