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A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.

In a lagging manner; loiteringly.

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.

, from Leg, v. t.

A cover for the leg, like a long gaiter.

Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope.

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

g; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. Shak.

With longing. Dryden.

Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.

Of or pertaining to lumbago.

Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.] Gower.

The condition or quality of being mangy.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

Of or pertaining to a margin.

Marginal notes.

In the margin of a book.