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ecies of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

ce, any hat not injured by compressing. -- Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.…

r intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift.

, size, power, numbers, etc. The reptile race culminated in the secondary era. Dana. The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating. Motley.

The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.

solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol. Milton. They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.

The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden.

nd dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

untries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

To rouse. [Obs.]

A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

o run away; -- generally used disparagingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

re one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

es, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.