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the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Totten. Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office havi…

One employed in slaughtering. Shak.

A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.

The business or skill of a waterman.

A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.

or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

An apparatus in which the images of extermal objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the oulines may be traced.

to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transp…

Perverse; untractable; contrary. She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

to the eldest son. [Obs.] Bastard eigne, a bastard eldest son whose parents afterwards intermarry.

y, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

A bold, vicious woman; a termagant. Spectator.

A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.