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person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

Steel produced by the basic process.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc. [Obs.]

To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

Same as Bheesty. [India]

A half boot or short boot.

A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns.

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

See Cast steel, under Steel.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

One who drives a chariot.

Same as Chromium steel, under Steel.

A circuiter. Pope.