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Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Having a bract or bracts.

the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

A knife; a dagger.

Relatingto, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante or his writings.

Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.

Without bracts.

Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.

Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.

To teach beforehand. [Obs.]

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.] Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutæus.