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The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

In a manner to cheer or encourage.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

With clattering.

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

In clusters.

of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

Agreeing. Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which correspondends with another in all its parts.

With consideration or deliberation.

In the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy. Milton.

ract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. Thomson.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

The act of covering with copper.

tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pittance to one whom they still regarded as their rightful lord. Macaulay…

h covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

y were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthn…

One who cringes meanly; a fawner.