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Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.

The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.

Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.

ise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.

Going or traveling in the night. Gay.

A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

The act of traveling post.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

e dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison.

tigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple.