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To cream; to mantle. [Scot.] A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. Sir W. Scott.

e stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

ot, a favorite food of swine. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Barnaby's thistle (Bot.), a kind of knapeweed (Centaurea solstitialis) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Bernard (Zoöl.), a breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St. Be…

mbryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.

The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.

The pewit gull.

A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door. [U. S.]

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

See Spew.

A mature tapeworm.

ually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

s. -- Tackle board, Tackle post (Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

A remedy to expel tapeworms.

Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.