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See Ambergris.

Great as a man's arm. [Obs.] A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

See Shagreen.

A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.

See Chigoe.

s the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

To agree. [bs.] Shak.

To salute mutually. [Obs.]

a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Milton.

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.

One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

ether friendly or hostile; an encounter. [Obs.] Here Pallas urges on, and Lausus there;congress in the field great Jove withstands. Dryden.

A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] Jer. Taylor.