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An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

A goveror or warden of a castle.

The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of making into a castle.

In a chaste manner; with purity.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Hoofbound. Crabb.

color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil.] "Charming heads in pastel." W. Black.

Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

See Wastel. [Obs.] Fuller.

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.] Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.

A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.

A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

Same as Castellany.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.