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ited with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

One who arrests.

One who attests.

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

A female scold. [Obs.]

Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. Ure.

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.

One who detes

or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.

To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).

To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaula…

A festering. [R.] Chalmers.

A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

A fruiteress. [Obs.]

ambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.

One who harvests; a machine for cutting and gathering grain; a reaper.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.