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A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

See Ax, Axman.

A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

One who wields an ax.

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

Fem. of Beadsman.

Same as Beadsman. [Obs.]

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

To mangle; to tear asunder. [R.] Beaumont.