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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.

omineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

scertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

cially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.

t. The piece is turned with the barrel to the front and grasped by the right hand at the lewer band, the muzzle is dropped to the front, and the piece held with the guard under the right arm, the hand supported against the hip, and the thumb on the rammer.

A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.

stice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hall…

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer. [Obs.]

A sewer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

y shrub or tree of the genus Eunymus. The wood of E. Europæus was used for spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.

tench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]

A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. -- Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.