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. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

ng ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic] A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

strel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

One who is surety with another.

See Cozy.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

Scientific examination of the cranium.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

See Crimson. [Obs.]

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

g smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

through Mexico. It has yellow flowers and very resinous foliage with a strong odor of creosote.

Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

See Crimson.