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The quantity a pitcher will hold.

More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event. -- n.

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

le of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel. The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. Shak.

Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.

Old name of the tense also called imperfect.

Old name of the tense also called preterit.

Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.

An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

A pteropod.

A scombroid food fish of Maderia (Cybium Commersonii).

the customs of France and Germany, persons in this abject state seem to have been called serfs, and distinguished from villeins, who were only bound to fixed payments and duties in respect of their lord, though, as it seems, without any legal redress if injured by him. Hallam.

The state or condition of a serf.

Serfage.

Full of showers. Tennyson.

A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).

The tarpum.

Given to sneering. [Obs.]

Running under or beneath. [R.]