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To praise; to worship. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.

., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Cor…

A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv.

cryptogamous plants containing oöspheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieæ and Peronosporeæ.

A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes. [R.] Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia. Carlyle.

tice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots. A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.

ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. Swift. -- Wash barrel (Fisheries), a barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting. -- Wash bottle. (Chem.) (a) A bottle partially filled with some liquid…

Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries. Milton. A woman infamous . . . for witcheries. Sir W. Scott.