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stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy. [Written also trochar.]

acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

udy; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. Cowper.

Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.

li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.

Unwieldy; unmanageable; clumsy. [Obs.] Our old limbs move [may] well be unweld. Chaucer.

Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.

hape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.

A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.

fe as . . . to vie with the best of their family. Addison. While Waterloo with Cannæ's carnage vies. Byron.

One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. [In this sense written also villan, and villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accident…

and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.

A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.

Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.

Art of, or skill in, rowing; oarsmanship; specif., skill in managing the blade in the water, as distinguished from managing arms, body, etc., in the stroke.

A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.