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A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay .

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

n, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.

To sew or hem; -- said of seams.

An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.

A needle for sewing up wounds.

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.

ein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. Raymond.

owned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.

ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.

ith water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

top in an organ, having a flutelike sound. Flute bit, a boring tool for piercing ebony, rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to Knight.

That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

See Fossa. Fosse road. See Fosseway.

material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight.

modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.