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mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. Dickens.

Pot-bellied. [R.] Dickens.

To peer; to look inquisitively. Dickens.

eater; a pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] Pepys. Milton. Pew opener, an usher in a church. [Eng.] Dickens.

A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens.

an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang] It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey. Dickens.

A pleasure seeker. Dickens.

. Pope. He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. Dickens.

denial. Locke. -- To pop the question, to make an offer of marriage to a lady. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Bulky; corpulent. "A portly personage." Dickens.

horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. -- Post hour, hour for posting letters. Dickens. -- Post office. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (…

sel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Dickens.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

nk a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.

To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens. -- To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. -- To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. -- To put to death, to kill. -- To put together, to attach; to aggregate…

High-spirited; rampageous. [Slang] Dickens.

a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] Dickens.

uct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.

out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.