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The rank or office of an Emir.

In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rive…

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.…

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor.

Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of. A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality. Geddes.

The office or rank of an examiner.

The act of wiping or rubbing out. [Obs.]

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

Skill in farming.

The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

See Filanders.

Fierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

A man living on the frontier.

ng to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. [R.] You will not find it furthersome. Carlyle.