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Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

imp. of Fly.

Having large flews. Shak.

The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See Illust. of Bloodhound.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.

See Glue. [Obs.]

Work after manner of a hurdle.

See Moldwarp.

A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

er of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

The teredo.

A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnæus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles. Forsyth.

Toward a pole of the earth. "The regions further polewards." Whewell.