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One who loads; a oppressor.

The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the b…

A private corner. Britain being a by-corner, out of the road of the world. Fuller.

One who calcimines.

One who, or that which, calcines.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.

A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. [U. S.]

The use of cannon. Burke.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

One who cautions or advises.

A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

One who chastens.

One who cheapens.

One who uses chicanery. Locke.

and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinerous.

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.