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An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.

The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone.

Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose. Ogee arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, each of the sides of which has the curve of an ogee, that is, has a reversed curve near the apex.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to Ant: apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]

A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

One under the care and protection of another.

r political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

Same as Squilgee.

small India-rubber roller with a handle, used esp. in printing and photography as a squeegee.

's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee.]

The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

ration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

cing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.