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hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate.

navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind. [Prov. Eng.]

, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.

Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. "I am sorry for my sins." Piers Plowman. Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. 2 Cor. vii. 9. I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. Shak. She entered, were he lief or sorry. Spenser.

To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish.

A cavern; a cave. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

ery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. Hast thou aught in thy purse [bag] any hot spices Piers Plowman.

One who deals in spice. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak.

Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.

ense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." Piers Plowman. The boy was the very staff of my age. Shak. He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand. Prof. Wilson.…

To pierce or wound with a stake. Spectator.

A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling. Rose-colored starling. (Zoöl.) See Pastor.

Place or room which another had, has, or might have. "Stewards of your steads." Piers Plowman. In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. Chaucer.