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A frater house. See under Frater.

l with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Within the territory of a state. Story.

Within the territory or a territory.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

Same as Meliorator.

One who prates. Shak.

One who regrates.

The act or practice of regrating.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.

A prater; an idle talker.

litics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.

or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

y which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]