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One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll. The reputation of wits and humorists. Addison.

ut so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. Shak.

ts of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold.

To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

ifted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.

Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. Shak.

Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. "Knavishly witty." Gayton.

A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. [South Africa]

An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See Wager of law, under Wager. Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an…

To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. I dare lay mine honor He will remain so. Shak.

ym: [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. -- Leading note (Mus.), the…

ed literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. "No lean wardrobe." Shak. Their lean and fiashy songs. Milton. What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. Num. xiii. 20. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. Shak.

, & i. To lay; to wager. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. L'Estrange.

The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

he wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. Consolidation locomotive, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers. -- Locomotive car, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [U.S.] --…

The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.

A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.