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or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.

The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. [Obs.] A dicker of cowhides. Heywood.

A genus of plants including the foxglove.

he action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. "The dip of oars in unison." Glover.

ar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover.

heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed. Holland. This was my glove; here is the fellow of it. Shak.

or glass to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table. -- Finger flower (Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguinale) with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See Crab grass, under Crab. -- Finger nut, a fly nut or thumb nut. -- Finger plate, a strip of metal, glass,…

hat is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

d; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason." Shak.

A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage." Shak.

A glove. See Gauntlet.

A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.

n objection. We will handle what persons are apt to envy others. Bacon. To handle without gloves. See under Glove. [Colloq.]

Engraved. Glover.

artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle. The insnaring charms Of love's soft queen. Glover.

That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. Glover.