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An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

To unsettle. [Obs.]

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.

A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous grow…

One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith.

One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

To settle again. Swift.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.