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A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

ness. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

ployee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

so, plaster or paper imitations of, or substitutes for, bonbons, often used by carnival revelers, at weddings, etc.

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.

Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

ne. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water cran…

. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay.

ears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.

n of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.

t also dawk, and dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth. Bacon.

position, or variety, by means of discretive particles, as but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper.

in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain. Bentley.

A driveler; a fool; an idiot. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.