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The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

One who renters.

One who repents.

One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne.

One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.

A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Knowingly; willfully. Bouvier.

Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.

Centering in one's self.

A sentry. [Obs.] Milton.

A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be…

One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

To throw from its center.

A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula.

hrough; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

(a) One who abates a nuisance. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

n its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise." Prescott.

That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.