Search the Dictionary

The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect. Sir H. Wotton.

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .

A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains. McElrath.

A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.

A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.

or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. Sir H. Wotton.

quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover. The beds were covered with magnificent quilts. Arbuthnot.

iot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

The act of boiling up or effervescing. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

To console or comfort again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

ed this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him. Sir H. Wotton. Our last recourse is therefore to our art. Dryden.

A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw. [Obs.] "This rede is rife." Spenser.

A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. McElrath.

as to send him. Shak. Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing Sir H. Wotton. Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. -- House of refuge, a c…

Sumptuous food; delicacies. [Obs.] Cotton. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

he button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.