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neral sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Shak.

To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

f covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill.

A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. Shak.

ities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the commanders of armies, to give time for a capitulation, or for other purposes.

Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. Ywatt.

on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

See Chay root.

To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

rm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay. -- In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] - - Sweet clover. See Meliot.

A small concial pile of hay.

ose. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon.

to plan; to plot. He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune. Hayward.

A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

nent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

rals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.