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n. A trinket. See Bauble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Insignificant; contemptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the backward escape of unburned gunpowder after a shot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase. [ PJC ]

n. One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bent, like a bow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating. ] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A well known light red variety of American grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Catawba. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flattering; sycophantic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a clawback parasite. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To flatter. [ Obs. ] Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer or sycophant. [ Obs. ] “Take heed of these clawbacks.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cowberries (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-idæa), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Dried cow dung used as fuel.[ Prov. Eng. ] Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool) The galeated curassow. See Curassow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of Rubus cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of Rubus canadensis and Rubus hispidus, species of low blackberries. (b) The plant which bears the fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M&unr_;Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) (a) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. (b) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A baby; a dunce. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Globard. ] The glowworm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. [ How + be + it. ] Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not -
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. jawboned p. pr. & vb. n. jawboning. ] To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation; esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; -- used especially of the President or other high government officials; as, to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- jaw"bon*ing, n. [PJC]

n. (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (Pedilanthus tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.
Syn. -- violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

-- Law"break`ing, n. & a. [1913 Webster]

n. A poker game in which the lowest-ranking hand wins. [ PJC ]

v. t. to give a deceptively low estimate of the price of (merchandise or services); -- a sales tactic to induce a person to buy.
Syn. -- underestimate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Low a flame + bell. ] 1. A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lowbell hung about a sheep's . . . neck. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To frighten, as with a lowbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel. [ 1913 Webster ]