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Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

d of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

de down; to invert. A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. Sir W. Temple.

One skilled in rhinology.

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth." Chaucer. Rude and unpolished stones. Bp. Stillingfleet. The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton.

To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke.

To destroy; to kill. Johnson.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail. Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Milton.

raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device…

needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over. E. E. Hale.

e structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles. His science, coolness, and great strength. G. A. Lawrence.

Knowing; skillful. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To cut superficially; to wound; to score. We have scotched the snake, not killed it. Shak. Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]