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Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.

Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. Dutch auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens…

A native, or one of the people, of Holland. Dutchman's breeches (Bot.), a perennial American herb (Dicentra cucullaria), with peculiar double-spurred flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra. -- Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an Amer…

The people on the globe. The whole earth was of one language. Gen. xi. 1.

Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] Holland.

The earthworm. [Obs.] The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.

A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition. Easel picture, Easel piece, a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.

f Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

ted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became fi…

eceding; going out; falling; shallow; low. The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. Holland.

A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.

The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.] The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits. Jer. Taylor.

A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

To build; to construct. [Archaic] There was a holy chapel edified. Spenser.

he rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling (Theol.), a doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, -- one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism.

A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

s, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.