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Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted, cross-hilted.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Dryden.

erican sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

I shall never hold that man my friend. Shak. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7.

entical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]

ojectile. -- Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

chblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France.

An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Raymond.

In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

ation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.

One who is unknown. Bp. Hacket.

tc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak.

r place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman.

ould not plunge his brother in despair. Addison. She had no jewels to deposit in their caskets. Fielding.

In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

se for writing materials. "With a writer's inkhorn by his side." Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn. Longfellow.

The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.