One of that sect who has no objection to the spirit derived from wine.
·noun One who quakes. II. Quaker ·noun The nankeen bird. III. Quaker ·noun The sooty albatross. I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A false or wooden gun; so called in allusion to the "Friends" not fighting. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj A dram; a drink. II. Wet ·Impf & ·p.p. of Wet. III. Wet ·superl Refreshed with liquor; drunk....
The owners and master of a ship are liable for all damage by wet. (See stowage.) ...
Burnt rum, with a piece of butter: an American remedy for a cold. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A member of the religious sect called Shakers, which see. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
·- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. ·cf. Dry nurse. ...
·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...
·adj Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet. ...
One who moistens his clay freely, in order to make it stick together. ...
A term used for float (which see), and also dock. ...
·add. ·- That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; ...
One of which the bulb is kept moist by the capillary attraction of cotton fibres from an attached re...