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Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.

The act of drowning. [R.]

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

See Emmenagogue.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.

er coins for any person who chooses to bring it to the mint; in a modified sense, such coinage when done at a fixed charge proportionate to the cost of the operation.

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

Guardianship. [Obs. & R.] " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.

Guardianship. [Obs.]

The number of guns carried by a ship of war.

Harbor dues; port dues.

Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

The right or privilege of intercommoning.

A knot in wood; a protuberance. Wright.

Full of knots; knaggy.

Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper. Fuller. -- Knag"gi*ness, n.

Libertinism; license. [R.]