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A cubic measure containing 1000 cubic meters, and equivalent to 35,315 cubic feet.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. Brande & C.

One who pesters or harasses.

A phalanstery.

Furnished with pilasters.

One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak.

A blustering, turbulent fellow. If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces. Macaulay.

same as Roister, Roisterer.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear to an observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe of stars.

An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph. -- Tel`e*ste`re*og"ra*phy (#), n.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters. Upholsterer bee. (Zoöl.) See Poppy bee, under Poppy.

The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

overnment or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.