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To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] Blount.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.

s (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

ptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

k of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.

st participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

er wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

To revel; to feast. [Obs.] A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion. Milton.

Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

e leveling staffs were placed. -- Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assembled in council. -- Bench plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes. -- Bench show, an exhibition of dogs. -- Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base…

A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.

To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell.

r catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.