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Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.

The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.

renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: (a) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. (b) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid…

g or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]

Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.

Centering in one's self.

Considering in one's own mind; deliberating. Pope.

Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.

A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.

A gleam or glimmering. "A little shimmering of a light." Chaucer.

In a shivering manner.

Quality of being showery.

In a shuddering manner.

The state of being silvery.

The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.

from Simper, v.