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A cheese scoop. Simmonds.

an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose. "Away with her, and pen her up." Shak. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. Milton.

To practice psalmody. " The psalmodizing art." J. G. Cooper.

common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

To hold ridottos. [R.] J. G. Cooper.

To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. To rout out

A turn or change in a course. Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore. Cooper.

An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances. Shovel hat, a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, - - worn by some clergy of the English Church. [Colloq.] --…

A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

U.S.] Such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sunup and sundown. Cooper.

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

the persons of men. Ezek. xxvii. 13. To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. Cooper.

ued; as, a deer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.

A certain tool used by coopers. Sherwood.

Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.

on in the bottom of a boat, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop. -- Well sinker, one who sinks or digs wells. -- Well sinking, the art or process of sinking or digging wells. -- Well staircase (Arch.), a staircase having a wellhole (see Wellhole (b)), as distinguished from one which oc…

ng Captain Lawton will count the noses of what are left before they see their whaleboats. Cooper. What followed was in perfect harmony with this beginning. Macaulay. I know well . . . how little you will be disposed to criticise what comes to you from me. J. H. Newman.