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A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.

A dormitory. [Obs.] Bacon.

Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Urogenital.

A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [Obs.] Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer.

See Limiter, 2.

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rioter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e; passion. [Obs.] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." Spenser. She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts]. Chaucer.

See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]

A traitor. [Obs.] "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.

ns by the use of elaborate machinery. [Obs.] Divers appearances Such as these subtle tregetours play. Chaucer.

varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

ack below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.