n. 1. a member of an aircrew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The feast of All Saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Aam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is given or bestowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bowmen A man who uses a bow; an archer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. Jer. iv. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any member of a ship's crew.
Syn. -- sailor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a member of a flight crew.
Syn. -- crew member. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a member of a work crew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disavowal. [ R. ] Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The ] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of eschewing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Fumet. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Mass the eucharist. ] The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Haulm, straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To lounge; to loiter. [ Prov. Eng. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. act of imbowing; an arch; a vault. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Endowment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A legislator; a lawgiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enacting laws; legislative. -- n. The enacting of laws; legislation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. Mahomet. ] A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally but falsely believed that the Muslims worshiped images representing Mohammed. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prov. E. maum soft, mellow, rotten; cf. OD. molm rotten wood, G. mulm. ] Nauseous. [ Obs. ] L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Newmarket, England. ] A long, closely fitting cloak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -men 1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed (Conyza squarrosa), having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Renown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The glory and renowme of the ancectors. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Renowned. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Realm. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie; cf. F. chalumeau shawm, chaume haulm, stalk; all fr. L. calamus a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet. ] (Mus.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [ Written also shalm, shaum. ] Otway. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Showmen One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Zool.) A shrew; especially, the erd shrew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham. [ 1913 Webster ]