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A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

A nun. [R.] Shak.

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

g ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic] A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

Same as Coistril.

Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.

See Costrel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A war horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To flow. [Poetic] Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

A state of being distressed or greatly pained.

Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. "Some distressful stroke." Shak. "Distressful cries." Pope. -- Dis*tress"ful*ly, adv.

Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.

A diviner. [Obs.] " I am no divinistre." Chaucer.

Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

The inward part of a building; the interior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

es set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.