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Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.

The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining. [West Indies] B. Edwards.

A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

. Matt. vi. 6. I pray, or (by ellipsis) Pray, I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me to go. I pray, sir. why am I beaten Shak.

The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere." Chaucer

ise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. Addison.

To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.]

A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson.

The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton.

small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidæ). The larvæ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

A maid; a virgin. [Written also pucel.] [Obs.] Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan. B. Jonson. La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.

A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.

A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work.

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]

One who inquires, or asks questions. Swift.

To ask questions; to make inquiry. Each prompt to query, answer, and debate. Pope.