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One who practiced phlebotomy.

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.] Howell.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. Knight.

A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

Scamped work.

A kind of freezer for ices.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.

A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game. [Obs.] Wase (1654).

Same as Calotype.

The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.

es, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.

Deprived of a bottom.

See Cartbote. See also the Note under Bote.

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.

solve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.