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A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

e's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. These men addressed themselves to the task. Macaulay.

inued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

Aside; askew. [Scotch] Burns.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

y; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

landmarks, which thy fathers have set. Prov. xxii. 28. An ancient man, strangely habited, asked for quarters. Scott.

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

To bask in the sun. Boyle.

Basking in the sun. [R.]

disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

bor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

pared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.