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tritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

usiness. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

portation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excep…

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

o a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

tled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

radle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.

ula. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or fou…

wer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

e tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.