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A small roof, covering, or shelter.

The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.

Having roofs. [R.] Dryden.

Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak.

One who scoffs. 2 Pet. iii. 3.

The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.

In a scoffing manner. Broome.

enerally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the pow…

Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.

Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.

Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.

Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Obs.] Bailey.

That which is set off against another thing; an offset. I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman. D. Jerrold.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

Shameless. Shak.

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Impenetrable by shot.

A banker, or changer of money. [East Indies]

The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased. [East Indies]