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One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

One who craves or begs.

A note of half the length of the quaver; a semiquaver. [R.]

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

One who deprave or corrupts.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

The trade or work of an engraver. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who enslaves. Swift.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [Prov. Eng.]

To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.] Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.

The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.

A bag for oats or oatmeal. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals (Anat.), the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.

hat which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.