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The construction of a sewer or sewers.

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.

The blades of green or barley. [Obs.] Bailey.

Obs. or corrupt forms of Asparagus.

Asperagus. [Obs.] Sylvester.

The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the common wealth. Milton.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

The act of stirring; stir; commotion. [Obs.] T. Granger.

The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. I ask your voices and your suffrages. Shak.

A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. Fleeming Jenkin.

A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. Milton.

A woman who plays in tragedy.

Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] "Tragedious history." Fabyan.

that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life. Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. Chaucer. All our tragedies are of kings and princes. J…

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

Outrage. [Obs.]

trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton.