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practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak.

Release from wardship; deliverance. It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative. Milton.

. A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

See Louver. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

Want or failure of discovery.

A previous discovery.

Favoring slavery. -- n.

The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. [Obs.] "Help be past recovery." Tusser.

A second or new delivery or liberation.

without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. Locke.

Same as Reverie.

Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]

Tremulous; shivering. Mallet.

er; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope.

subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington.…

The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South.