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A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

Trousers or breeches of corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.

Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.

See Cross, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. Ex. xxxiv. 13.

Destructible. [R.] Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

See Droil. [Obs.] Spenser.

To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.

See Groin.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at- arms, under King.

also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

A mean fellow; a wretch. [Obs.] hak.

One who destroys himself; a suicide.

Pertaining to, or designating, a substance now called salicylal. [Obs.]

A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]