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One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

Furnished with tendrils.

Furnished with claws. N. Grew.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear. Pope.

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

t be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

A genus of freshwater leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

t, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.

patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

Furnished with cloisters. Sir H. Wotton.

h is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.…

en, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.

A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

t water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges. [Written also combings.]