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The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.

ed; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Anapestic.

A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.…

Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.

A stone for coping. See Coping.

A seed of the grape.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague. [Obs.]

See Pester. [Obs.]

Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.

Unseasonably. [Obs.]

Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.

To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.

The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.