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ir than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett.

A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [Obs.] A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.

Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

To buffet. "Cuffed by the gale." Tennyson.

dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson.

A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant] Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.

See Safety lamp, under Lamp.

A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. "Desperate expedients." Macaulay.

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.

y; absolutism; autocracy. Despotism . . . is the only form of government which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its infant poor. Bp. Horsley.

st; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. Whately.

to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.

doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.

Hanging down like gyves or fetters. [Poetic & Rare] Shak.