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A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.

A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

Temperately. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To infect with leprosy. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens.

baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.