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One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

Travel; wandering. [R.] Carlyle.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.…

difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.

To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.

oducing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.

A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

uperstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood. Dryden.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).

r connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.

A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]

und associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

roup of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.

A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.

Flatness. [Obs.] Palsgrave.