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imp. of Grow.

Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.

line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13.

= Jewish calendar.

An Israelitish woman.

Prepared in hell. Milton.

With this.

A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.

A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.

The Cornish chough. See under Chough. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

Same as Oarweed.

Same as Oarweed.

To strew or scatter over.

To warn beforehand; to forewarn. [R.]

The rear quard of an army. [Obs.]

Same as Burstwort.

In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.