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drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

See Chippeways.

Same as Chippeways.

or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.

. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

The pewit, or lapwing.

Same as Pewit (a & b).

See Pewit.

The pewee, or pewit.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

The lapwing, or pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.

An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

ts periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.

One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

A pewfellow. [Obs.]

The pewit.

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Shak.

stem and a perennial woody root. -- Queen's metal (Metal.), an alloy somewhat resembling pewter or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper. -- Queen's pigeon. (Zoöl.) Same as Queen pigeon, above. -- Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cr…