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Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.

porter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state. "You are a well-deserving pillar." Shak. By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire. Milton.

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.

A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.

A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archæologists in two senses:

combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

tion taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force.

A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.

Serving to reward; rewarding. [R.] Baxter.

Serving as a prefix in a compound name. Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy preservation. Shak.

Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.

trument the telescope of which revolves in the plane of the prime vertical, -- used for observing the transit of stars over this circle.

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. South.

Serving for trial; probationary. Abp. Bramhall.

Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.