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Lager beer.

Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.

. Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar. Simmonds.

One who pillages. Pope.

That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like. [Slang, U.S.]

An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.

Villages; a district of villages. [Obs.] "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.

iquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

nt in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

Defenseless. [Obs.] The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.

m: [L., flaming niter] (Old Chem.), ammonium nitrate; -- probably so called because it deflagerates when suddenly heated.

A pillager.

n alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is lagerly used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks.

Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting lagerly of, sapwood.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles.