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makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.] A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.

The cuckoobud.

A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.

either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

On this; hereon.

See Hiccough.

A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. [Slang]

See Hoopoe. [Obs.]

ll out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Uncorrupted. [Obs.] Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.

Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.

In an incorruptible manner.

The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.