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A holy-water stoup. Shipley.

A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment. [India]

Dividing into two parts. -- n.

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.

Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.

g, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

Suffering or enduring together. [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

Agreeing in mind; accordant. The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson.

A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

Perceiving together.

itain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

dance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.