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A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. Brewer.

To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. Macaulay. I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. Swift.

line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. [R.] A. Brewer.

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

tructure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. Family circle. See under Circle. -- Family man. (a) A man who has a…

ften, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

th water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

e habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.