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A sinker attached to a fishing line; also, a line having several branches, each with such a sinker, used in deep-sea fishing. [Local, U. S.]

or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.

Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.…

ountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains Pinkerton.

r centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.

A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.

3, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings. Pinkerton. Guinea corn. (Bot.) See Durra. -- Guinea Current (Geog.), a current in the Atlantic Ocean setting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas…

An immoderate drinker.

Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.

adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

i-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

ieve in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

ion. The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. Pinkerton.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. Knight.

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

ic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.

A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsoles.]

Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

ining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinker