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To grieve; to feel sad. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Ermine. Shenstone.

nt; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

The act of affeering. Blackstone.

A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.

Attemperament.

averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.

A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

Contention. [Obs.] Spenser.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

See Kermes.

The act of deciphering.

act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The act of deterring; also, that which deters. Boyle.

Discovery. [Obs.]