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Crosiered.

An island in a river; an ait. [Obs.] "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.

th reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done. The oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. Spenser. It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not…

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

oking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

An osier basket used for catching fish. [Prov. Eng.]

f various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. McElrath.

lem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier. -- Pastoral Theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors.

g a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. Many a mountain nigh Rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still. Byron.

A rosier; a rosebush. [Obs.]

A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.

tocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]

A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

secured by, or covered with, wickers or wickerwork. Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather. Milton.

A texture of osiers, twigs, or rods; articles made of such a texture.

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.

The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).