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A bat. [Obs.] Puttenham.

A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.

The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.] "Remisses of laws." Puttenham.

A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak.

from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.

aw, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.

g to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows.…

asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.

iding; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate. Bouvier.

The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.

The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air. Sir H. Wotton.

The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.] Dementation and sopition of reason. Sir T. Browne.

To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.

To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift.

; to waste. [Obs.] They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. [Colloq.] Carleton.

To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. R. S. Poole.