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urt of justice to conduct a particular suit. -- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district.

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.

To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.

skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. Spenser.

ding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather. -- Half boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cade…

Half-filled. [Obs.] Lions' half-clammed entrails roar food. Marston.

A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.

To manage; as, I hand my oar. [Obs.] Prior.

Coarseness of features.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

Coarseness of features.

A coarse American commercial sponge (Spongia dura).

The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.

s so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

r on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.