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pe with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope.

A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.

One who hews.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

d hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.

To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.…

One who chews.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge.

One who eschews.

The act of eschewing. [R.]

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

To hew or cut in front. [Obs.] Sackville.

See Foreshow.

The grandson of one's brother or sister.

To cover with a morphew. [Obs.]

See Navew.