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One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

The inner corona. [R.]

A hare in the first year of its age.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.

White-livered; cowardly.

One who lingers. Guardian.

The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.

Having (such) a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.

One who loiters; an idler.

lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

A pimp; also, a bawd. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A division of birds; the Longipennes.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

One who maneuvers. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

y, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak.

One who maunders.

A million ampères.

An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations.

A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.