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To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.

liceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.] He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras.

rom a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. Milton.

One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket.

Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.

blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl…

gister, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. -- Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing f…

A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- calles also pontee and punty.

o has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. -- Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. -- Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of…

A fair or market. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.