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Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

See Feldspar.

See Feldspathic.

See Raspatory.

A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.

An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.

To transfer the patronage of. [Obs.] Warner.

ing to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

d in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. Motley.

The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.…

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

ly the same word as by; joined with verbs, it serves: (a) To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir. (b) To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).…

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.