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Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother (in vinegar).

A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.

Ocherous. [Written also ochrey, ochry.]

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. [R.] Shak.

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes. [R.] Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia. Carlyle.

Work done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.

Tending to smother; stifling.

Round; spherical; starlike. [R.] "Hermia's sphery eyne." Shak.

Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [Scot]

Needlework; -- in comtempt. Shak.

Deceit; fraud; imposition. [Obs. & R.]

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

An inclosure for cows.

Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. Wordsworth. The dear, dear witchery of song. Bryant.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

onjecture; guess. [Obs.] What you would work me to, I have some aim. Shak. To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.] Shak.

Leathery.

deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican pala…

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.