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A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

Same as Cellarer.

Cancellarean. [R.]

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

Of or pertaining to ocelli.

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridæ) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.

ere butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.

One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidæ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well- known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

allow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.