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Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.

To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.] Fuller.

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.

Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.

he image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage. By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

A place for mooring.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] acon.

The lammergeir.

To rage in excess of. [R.] Young.

Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

The act of pandering.

Kindred; family; birth. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. We claim to be of high parage. Chaucer.