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In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

The clothes ironed. Ironing board, a flat board, upon which clothes are laid being ironed.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray.

The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned. [Recent]

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

Act of environing; state of being environed.

An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.

to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

A second enthroning.

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

n or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. "The beetle wheels her droning flight." Gray. Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course. Milton.