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Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

Full of daring; adventurous. [Archaic] T. Campbell.

prise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm. -- En"ter*pri`sing*ly, adv.

Act of gazing about; sightseeing. [Prov. Eng.]

The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

By way of conjecture. Shak.

A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.

mpt; the object of scorn and derision. [Archaic] I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.

With a hissing sound.

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

Unpleasing; displeasing. [Obs.] Overbury.

Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart.

In an imposing manner.

The quality of being imposing.

More and more.

A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish g…

king, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [U. S.]

Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.