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The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.…

One who despoils.

Despoliation. [R.]

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.

the attainment of that which was excepted, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. I was disappointed, bu…

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. In disappointm…

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

olarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be used cold.…

Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

To poison; to impoison. Shak.

Poisoner. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of poisoning. Bacon.

said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood.

Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.

Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Shak. Is Pompey grown so malapert, so frampel Beau. & Fl.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

Bloodforming; as, the hæmapoietic function of the spleen.