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A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.

A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvæ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

A salad made of sliced cabbage.

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]

The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

thers in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense. He found some of his confederates in gaol. Macaulay.

d fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.

An associate; an accomplice. [Archaic] "Wicked consociates." Bp. Hall.

to construe and paraphrase our own words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

A gay, licentious person. [Obs.]

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. ]