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sions, to make a trial or an experiment. Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep. Shak.

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

r things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book. I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. [Obs.]

A basket.

er layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

he stage; hence, tragedy in general. The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck. Cat's cradle. See under Cat. -- Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot. -- Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for c…

Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

A creel or osier basket.

ng into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.