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Like the teeth off a saw; jagged. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The red-breasted merganser.

Finely serrate; having very minute teeth.

One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.

To crowd; to press together.

V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

Sherry. [Obs.] Shak.

e it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. Whitter.

A tree or shrub (Elæagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit. Gray.

A rocky isle; an insulated rock. [Scot.]

See Terrier.

A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.

Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.

A grotto or cavern under ground. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten. [Obs.] "To sperre the gate." Spenser.

An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [U. S.]

A star. [Obs.] Chaucer.