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That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

he act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland.

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

ing and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

and administrative skill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

ce; -- used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet.

OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.

(Zoöl.), the circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms. -- Ring dotterel, or Ringed dotterel. (Zoöl.) See Dotterel, and Illust. of Pressiroster. -- Ring dropper, a sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthl…

The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [Prov.Eng.]

support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden.

Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer. Schemers and confederates in guilt. Paley.

Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

The sea otter.

A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin. [Written also saggar, sagger, and segger.] Ure.