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A confederate.

The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

Of or pertaining to a confederation.

A confederate. Grafton.

The act of making foul; pollution. [Obs.]

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.

Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

Pampered; fed luxuriously.

Having a hip roof.

Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.

Furnished with a ruff. Ruffed grouse (Zoöl.), a North American grouse (Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet…

kespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."

Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.

Stripped of a roof, or similar covering. Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements. Sir W. Scott.

Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.

Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Fed or filled with acorns. [R.] Shak.