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A low, spreading weed (Scleranthus annuus), common in sandy soil.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet. Wright.

A lawyer. [Obs.] Bale.

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n.

A million webers.

To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.

One who saws; a sawyer.

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi. 27.)

imp. & p. p. of Straw. [Obs.]

One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

A place where skins are tawed.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

Woe. [Obs.]

One who draws metal into wire.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's pe…