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To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt.

Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers. Swift.

A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.

To calculate; to compute. [R.] Who would cast and balance at a desk. Tennyson.

An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.

a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.

place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern]. Fairholt.

scribed by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections)…

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.

ng borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. South.

A kneeling desk for prayers.

A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

as, a reading community. Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader. -- Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church. -- Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc. -- Reading…

A escritoire; a writing desk.

er a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.

To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship. [Spelt also swob.]