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9º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make calm; to render still or quet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. To calm the tempest raised by Eolus. Dryden.

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority. Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very sil…

A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] "A consult of coquettes." Swift.

A quest at a banquet. [R.] Beaumont.

To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. [Obs.] Shak.

er cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way (Fort.), a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravel…

ed; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. Coy, and difficult to win. Cowper. Coy and furtive graces. W. Irving. Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. Goldsmith.

A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).

a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. -- Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. -- To be in one's cups, to be drunk.

Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n.

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

r life nor soul in her. L'Estrange. Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head. Miss Mitford.

who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.