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The act of saving. [Obs.]

One who saves.

To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley.

o applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. Scavenger beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. -- Scavanger crab (Zoöl.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. -- Scavenger's daughter Etym: [corrupt. of Skevin…

Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.

Same as Slav.

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts.

A rush. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Corrupted or depraved by one's self. Milton.

A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. Chaucer.

A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt. I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. Sir W. Scott.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

m for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley. Sheave hole, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.

Made of straw. [Obs.] Shak.

action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge Milton.

Born in slavery.

One who holds slaves.