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ed by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

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

ing is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.

Having a socket. Dawkins.

Destitute of socks or shoes. B. & Fl.

Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.]

A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

Clothed with a cassock.

A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock. Forby.

See Tussock. [Obs.]

like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. Latimer.

Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

To loose or take from a socket.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

hich the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket.

itting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.…