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Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.

One who lingers. Guardian.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

Puckered. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

The office of a vicegerent. South.

rity, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young.

One who wagers, or lays a bet.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

f civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power. Madison.

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. [Obs.] He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See Etagere.

An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm.

The conger eel; -- called also congeree. Conger sea (Zoöl.), the sea eel; a large species of eel (Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.