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One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used conteptuously.

Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.

A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

Same as Decastere.

A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis.

A court of justice; judgment hall. [R.] J. S. Mill.

planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. [Obs.] Disasters in the sun. Shak.

Disastrously. [Obs.] Drayton.

One who teaches drill, especially in the way of gymnastics. Macaulay.

The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum), called also Annunciation lily.

r others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

at portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the…