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A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.

A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. Sir W. Temple.

he glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sap…

act to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.

A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.

Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.

es, or of a people considered as distinct. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. Macaulay.

d; dominion. O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English. Spenser.

eel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

cozener. 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Milton.

i. e., bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it. Chaucer. Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day Shak. Therefore, my lord, address you to your shrift, And be yourself; for you must die this instant. Rowe. Shrift father, a priest to whom confession is made.

ian, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc. Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens. Swift. Where patience her sweet skill imparts. Keble.

The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

ally forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten. Rowe.

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

Egotism. Krauth-Fleming.

To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.