Search the Dictionary

Dejection; despondency; lowness. In a great depression of spirit. Baker.

olloq.] We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us. Sir S. Baker.

An indefinite small number. Milton. A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.

it lamp. There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.

omment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

is this war now ended were. Spenser. High sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. Baker.

A constant irritating desire. An itch of being thought a divine king. Dryden. Baker's itch. See under Baker. -- Barber's itch, sycosis. -- Bricklayer's itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. -- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by t…

To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. Baker.

le balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker.

ak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

n; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. Baker. Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. -- Oblique bridge, a s…

several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker.

A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

; suspicious. It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. Baker.

achine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.

or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit. Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India. Baker.