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A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

xcellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

her optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by…

in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

tation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner. And here he faltered forth his last farewell. Byron. Mde me most happy, faltering "I am thine." Tennyson.

tructure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. Family circle. See under Circle. -- Family man. (a) A man who has a…

r hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

ften, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

reet in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes.

ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.

th water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

e habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.