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An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

Wearily; heavily; firmly. [Obs.] In go the spears full sadly in arest. Chaucer.

Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer.

A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

The shot of an arquebus. Ash.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

See Cassava.

A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.

One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.

To draw back, or cause to draw back. [Obs.] Spenser.

ike; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey.