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To mete. [Obs.] Shak.

To deprive (of), or take away (from). [Obs.]

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.

a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on…

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.

xed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Having a casement or casements.

The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n.., 2.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

The act or process of cementing.