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Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.

Unseasonably. [Obs.]

Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.

Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Suffering; endurance. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A porpoise. [Obs.]

A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

A female satrap.

Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.

A manganesian variety of garnet.

The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.

The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.