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A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke.

side the instruments of war, and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.

Only; solely; merely. Observe but how their own principles combat one another. Milton. If they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings vii. 4. A formidable man but to his friends. Dryden.

it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. -- To serve the cable, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. -- To slip the cable, to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not tim…

eehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

To serve in a campaign.

One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.

To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

slice or piece of bread fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, etc., are served.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

Set with carbuncles. He has deserves it [armor], were it carbuncled Like holy Phabus' car. Shak.

l obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. -- To carry arms (a) To bear weapons. (b) To serve as a soldier. -- To carry away. (a) (Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast. (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation. -- To carry coals,…