A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. →
n.
An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy. →
n.
A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. →
n.
A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. →
superl.
Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment. →
n.
An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels. →