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r incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.

To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

A short tobacco pipe. [Written also dudheen.] [Irish]

Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

See Octodecimo.

Next in order after the seventeenth.

An evergreen plant.

Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.

Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

See Philopena.

Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer.

that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.

An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.