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n. [ F. See Chaplet. ] 1. A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [ Written also chaplet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Dim. of Drupe. ] (Bot.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. godspellere. ] [ Written also gospeller. ] 1. One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney. Pall Mall Gazette. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hopelessword of “never to return”
Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [ Obs. ] Marston.

-- Hope"less*ly, adv. -- Hope"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia sulcata, syn. Anthea sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Pelican. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of birds consisting of the pelicans.
Syn. -- family Pelecanidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pelican, and -form. ] (Zool.) Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. pe`lekys a hatchet + -oid. ] (Geom.) A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants. [ Written also pelicoid. ] Math. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.
Syn. -- bivalve, lamellibranch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. pe`lekys a hatchet + -poda. ] (Zool.) Same as Lamellibranchia. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as lamellibranchiate.
Syn. -- lamellibranch, lamellibranchiate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. See Peregrine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pèlerine a tippet, fr. pèlerin a pilgrim, fr. L. peregrinus foreign, alien. See Pilgrim. ] A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After a Hawaiian goddess associated with the crater Kilauea. ] Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. (Classical Mythology) A king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he was the son of Aeachus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Tamil kīrippi&lsdot_;&lsdot_;ai. ] (Zool.) The Indian ferret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Destitute of a scape. [ 1913 Webster ]