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efore any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

cular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.

The dry bed of a small stream. [Western U. S.]

Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.

A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

ashes, with humble expression of grief or repentance; -- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

aceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

Dismay; consternation. [Archaic] Spenser.

Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…