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Concave. Abp. potter. -- Con*ca"vous*ly, adv.

One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter. 2 Sam. xv. 31.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

A potter. [Obs.] Wyclif.

to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

sion; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Ps. ii. 9. A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. Shak. To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Milton.

To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:

A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

ourtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

To shake, tremble, or totter. "The doddering mast." Thomson.

See Dotterel.

To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

tructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. See under Jig. -- Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem of the key. -- Drill sergeant (M…

Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.