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The governor of a province or people. Lew Wallace.

Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. "The eucharistic sacrament." Sir. G. C. Lewis.

The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. Addison. To draw him from his holy exercise. Shak.

within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. Chapman.

r splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

iant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.…

, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. Bryant.

A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

asants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. -- Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. -- Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game fo…

A large umbrella; --said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."

A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out. Clew garnet. See under Clew.

The alewife. [Local, Canada]

Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]

s essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text…

thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

the stock is made wedge-shaped to fit the cleft in the scion, which is placed upon it saddlewise. -- Side grafting, a mode of grafting in which the scion, cut quite across very obliquely, so as to give it the form of a slender wedge, is thrust down inside of the bark of the stock or stem into which it is inserted, the…

inging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.

The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.