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A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.

A framework, or a sy Framing chisel (Carp.), a heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.

To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.

o of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.

A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, opera…

Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made…

A bushel basket. [Obs.]

r another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

se hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

ng the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

ut; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

rd, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

hed to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.