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A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

A bacterial vaccine.

A train of artillery for siege operations.

1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

Senseless babble or boasting.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

In a blustering manner.

ngland, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Same as Center, n., 6. [Written also centring.]

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

With clattering.

In clusters.

= Advancing edge.

Outside of the uterus, or womb. Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.