(n.) "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."

(n.) A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

(n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

(pl. ) of Tipstaff

(n.) A staff tipped with metal.

(n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

(n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.

(n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

(n.) A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

(n.) See Dandruff.

(n.) A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.

(a.) Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

(n.) A material used for dyeing.

(n.) Valor tried by war.

(n.) A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

(n.) A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.

(n.) A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.

(a.) Laid aside; cast-off.

(n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.

(n.) Mutial accommodation; mutual giving.

(n.) An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

(n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.

(v. t.) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.

(pron.) An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.

(a.) Impervious to the rays of the sun.

(n.) The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.

(n.) Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption.

(n.) A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.

(n.) A lady who wears a kerchief.

(n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.

(n.) A dolt; a stupid fellow.

(n.) Alt. of Woodroof

(n.) A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.

(n.) Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.

(n.) Cause of trouble or vexation; trouble.

(v. t.) To do harm to.

(v. t.) To misgraft.

(n.) See Jeffersonia.