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An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.

A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini. [Written also Palæechinoidea.]

Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.

Knavishy; deceitfully. [Obs.]

A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etching of the plate.

Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.

In a pinching way.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

izing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place. -- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo- china), found in America.

See Puncheon.

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

A tank in which alum is crystallized from a solution.