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A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

nterior. Bartlett. Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [U. S.] -- County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in refer…

n, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

sket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls. Bacon.

the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited.

Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

ss; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

n incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

To let fall; to deposit. [Obs.] Additional mud deposed upon it. Woodward.

A place of deposit storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse. The islands of Guernsey and Jersey are at present the great depots of this kingdom. Brit Critic (1794).

Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.

d or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

aving a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.