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Poisoner. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of poisoning. Bacon.

See Imprison.

Occasion, cause, or reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Of the same or like sound.

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.

ntially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.

Sounding like waves.

abundance. [Archaic] Lowell. That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. Shak.

See Foison.

an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Same as Gambison.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.