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The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.

Of or pertaining to glottology.

A linguist; a philologist.

The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.

The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred…

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

The cloth which covers a coach box.

A handkerchief.

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. [Obs.] He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.

To harlot. [Obs.] Warner.

Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art.

A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.

lave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf. Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community. I. Taylor.

The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.