Split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc. / Alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.

(fisheries) A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.

Any wasp in the vespid subfamily Polistinae, known for making paper-like nests out of fibers from dead wood and plant stems.

(pharmacology) Yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water; a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.

Deuteragenia ossarium, a spider wasp.

Used to emphasize the truth of a characterization

A gasworks apparatus within which gas from the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.

(derogatory) One who never achieved success or popularity.

Crataegus phaenopyrum, native to eastern North America.

(informal) Alternative letter-case form of waspy (“characteristic of a WASP”)