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The state of being cheery.

In a manner to cheer or encourage.

The precursory symptoms of cholera.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

With clattering.

In clusters.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

With consideration or deliberation.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

The act of covering with copper.

s tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord. Macaula…

ch covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

tury, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles. Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin. Mac

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

Same as Diaper, n.,

In a differing or different manner. Boyle.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

Ember days. [Obs.]

Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

= Advancing edge.