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Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

Having two bristles.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

See Brassart.

Same as Seggar.

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

See Cunner.

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

To inclose in corsets.

To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. O. W. Holmes.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

To unsettle. [Obs.]

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.