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One who views or examines.

The European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

A woodpecker.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth.

teem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

s egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

A small spit or skewer.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

A critic; a reviewer. Received with caution by the censors of the press. W. Irving.