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A person indicted.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

To steep or soak; to drench. [R.] "In gore he lay insteeped." Shak.

One who is interrogated.

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

See Jetty, n. Burke.

the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below. Lateen sail. Etym: [F. voile latine a sail in the shape of a right- angled triangle; cf. It. & Sp. vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin.] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth…

A dancer of the lavolta.

One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

See under Low.

Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]

Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.

he East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

pring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]

Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.

A small muff worn over the wrist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One who drives mules.

A soldier armed with a musket.

See Mestee.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.