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ers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

A loft for corn; a granary.

Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.

Croftland. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

To decay and perish through excessive moisture.

To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [Obs. or Archaic] Bale.

Unprofitable. [Obs.]

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.

To unroof. [R.] Carlyle.

To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.