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ic Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed. Sea-otter's cabbage (Bot.), a gigantic kelp of the Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.

To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.

One who spots.

A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.

See Teeter.

shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.

One who totters.

In a tottering manner.

Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.

One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

rt crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

ey stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Potter's clay. [Obs.] Chaucer.