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The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. Milton.

A woman disseizes.

A female doctor.[R.]

One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

A doorpost. [Obs.] "As dead as a doretree." Piers Plowman.

A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.

Having the ear perforated.

An annoyance to the ear. [R.] The perpetual jangling of the chimes . . . is no small earsore Sir T. Browne.

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

e loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.

The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

An electress. Bp. Burnet.

Hellebore. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Implore. [Obs.]

Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise. [Obs.] Johnson.