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A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.

A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.

Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

See Umber, 4.

egar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette.

See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

aid some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen. [Also spelt arseniuretted.]

A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.

pound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.] Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas. -- Light carbureted hydrogen, marsh gas, CH4; fire damp.

of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak.

ion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates. [Written also hypercarburetted.]

To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. Totten.

ther loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

ts capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus. [Obsoles.] [Written also phosphuretted.] Phosphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Phosphine.

A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. "The more the pity." Shak. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! Addison.