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The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill. Tusser.

Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. [R.] A. Seward.

A coat of defense made of small plates of metal sewed upon linen or the like; also, this kind of armor taken generally; as, a coat of jazerant.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]

A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere. -- Ker`au-nog"ra-phy, n.

, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] Shelton. -- Kettle stitch (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book. Knight.

Laudableness; praiseworthiness.

Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

Tortrix. -- Leaf scar (Bot.), the cicatrix on a stem whence a leaf has fallen. -- Leaf sewer (Zoöl.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges together with silk, as if sewn; esp., Phoxopteris nubeculana, which feeds upon the apple tree. -- Leaf sight, a hinges s…

ugh, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.

ches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

nce; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. Keats. Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not. Latimer.

Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.

A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. The housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips. J. C. Shairp.

To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border. Sir H. Wotton.

To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.[U.S.] Bartlett.

sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch.

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.

A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.