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A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.

ape (Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

t of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindoos as sacred. See Rhesus.

The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers. Knight.

ashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

given, from their shape, to various species of shells (family Calyptræidæ). -- Bonnet monkey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To hav…

The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

led banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. F. S. Key.

A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.