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large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table. [Written also terreen.]

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

Disagreeable.

To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.

Not decreed.

To creep secretly or privily. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Indiscreet. Chaucer. -- Un`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- -- Un`dis*creet"ness. -- Un`dis*cre"tion, n. Indiscretion.

Not free; held in bondage. There had always been a slave class, a class of the unfree, among the English as among all German peoples. J. R. Green

To thaw. [Obs.]

Not distinguished by a pedigree. [R.] Pollok.

To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center of the United States, hence the name is often used for the money market an…

A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

Any tree having pendulous branches.

Same as Whippletree.

A large sting ray (Dasybatis, or Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.

ened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.

Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches.