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Changeable; fickle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

Surgery. [Obs.]

Trick; deception. Bp. Watson.

trickery; artifice. [Obs.] Hacket.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs. [R.]

The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton.

A grogshop. [Slang, U. S.]

h character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

The practice of imposition.

ble representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden.

Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt.

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). [Written also jagghery.]

ate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament.

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

A trifle; a piece of foolery. [Obs.] Skinner.

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.