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who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. The meanest scullion that followed his camp. South.

Like a scullion; base. [Obs.] Milton.

nelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

Selected; culled.

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the…

Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass. The very scullion who cleans the brasses. Hopkinson.

ich may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch.

Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a pecullar cast of countenance. "A neat cast of verse." Pope. An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.

n a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. [R.] The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. Sir M. Hale.

he claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch.

ssel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [Also written dupper.] M'Culloch.

the people, of Holland. Dutchman's breeches (Bot.), a perennial American herb (Dicentra cucullaria), with peculiar double-spurred flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra. -- Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (…

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

ntal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. A rose just gathered from the stalk. Dryden. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.