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A mace bearer; an officer of a court. P. Plowman.

a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

The act or process of macerating.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Emaciation. [Obs.]

onds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green o…

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] Coxe. The medicating and insuccation of seeds. Evelyn.

he premolars. -- Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. -- Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice. -- Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. --…

tia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andrews.

Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

are for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.

To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. Shak. In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers. Wordsworth. The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin. Earle.…