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A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the…

A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator. [Colloq.]

erbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc. -- Wandering kidney (Med.), a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; -- called also floating kidney, movable kidney. -- Wandering liver (Med…

rn or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.

A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Dickens.

The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

ic on various cetaceans. -- Whale's bone, ivory. [Obs.] -- Whale shark. (Zoöl.) (a) The basking, or liver, shark. (b) A very large harmless shark (Rhinodon typicus) native of the Indian Ocean. It sometimes becomes sixty feet long. -- Whale shot, the name formerly given to spermaceti. -- Whale's tongue (Zoöl.), a bal…

As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this what did you say what poem is this what child is lost What see'st thou in the ground Shak. What is man, that thou art mindful of him Ps. viii. 4. What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey hi…

ronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it which woman was it which is the house he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die See the Note under What,…

A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way. Gay.

lar or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rar…

A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.

A large wicker basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

e bag, a wine skin. -- Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. -- Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. -- Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. -- Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a st…

One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Totten.

A whisket, or basket. [Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

to query in the mind; as, he wondered why they came. I wonder, in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny. Shak.