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A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

One who pities. Gauden.

A curtain hanging across a doorway.

One who putties; a glazier.

One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [Obs.]

A kind of freezer for ices.

See Saltire.

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

r beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face. Beach, bluff, and wave, adieu. Whittier.

A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.