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The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.

y feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards. -- n.

Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of…

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

A joint legatee.

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

A comedian. [Obs.] Steele.

ower to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey. Te steepy stand Which overlooks the vale with wide command. Dryden.

intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity. Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. Macaulay.

rize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.

g [quantities]. Milton. To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

holding cases of type when in use. -- Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; -- called also setting rule. -- Composing stick (Print.), an instrument usually of metal, which the c…

e Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.

e who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.