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Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

See PyÆmia.

A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.] Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet. Sir W. Scott.

One who pays rates or taxes.

The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. [Local, U.S.]

To deney; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.] For he made every man reneye his law. Chaucer.

See Replier. Bacon.

a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

A kind of water wheel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope.

aded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.Samoyeds.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey.

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.

Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment. [Cant]

The gray snapper. See under Snapper.

See 1st Sea pie.

One who destroys himself; a suicide.

A series. [Obs.] Chaucer.