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A giant. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.

A duet of short extent and concise form.

By forgetting.

The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. With all thy getting, get understanding. Prov. iv. 7.

Mineral t

The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.

One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.…

d for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

es in a disparaging sense. A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness. Jeffrey.

The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, meceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. Ure.

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.

The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell.

The act or art of setting type.

Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal. Sir H. Wotton.