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A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga.

An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.

One who lops; one who trims trees. [Obs.] Huloet.

ot to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden.

An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.

In a staggering manner.

A kind of ragwort (Senecio Jacobæa).

a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

That which is pointed like a tag. Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers. Cotton.

A lamb. [Prov. Eng.]

rriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness. [R.] The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches. Sterne.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.