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The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

ostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. Johnson.

Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.

scan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

Weary; mournful. Shak.

e made of beaver fur; a beaver. I have always been known for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor. Sir W. Scott.

A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. Chafing dish, a dish or vessel for cooking on the table, or for keeping food warm, either by coals, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where t…

ce result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't Shak.

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.