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one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. Wright.

Same as Gaffle, 1. Wright.

Any strange sight. Wright.

A horse's thighs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright.

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement…

The male of the salmon. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.

To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at. [Obs.] Wright.

The mouth. [Prov. Eng.or Low] Wright.

To fasten with a rope, as a gate. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] Wright.

A shed or hovel for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

A huck or hull, as of a nut. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

blic service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. -- Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impresse…