What is "peltryware"

Votary \Vo"ta*ry\, a. [From L. votus, p. p. vovere to vow, to devote. See Vote, Vow.] Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.
--Bacon.

Votary \Vo"ta*ry\, n.; pl. Votaries. One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life. ``You are already love's firm votary.''
--Shak.

'T was coldness of the votary, not the prayer, that was in fault.
--Bp. Fell.

But thou, my votary, weepest thou?
--Emerson.

Unsorted \Un*sort"ed\, a.

1. Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods.

2. Not well selected; ill-chosen.

   The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you named uncertain; the time itself unsorted.
   --Shak.

Pelasgian \Pe*las"gi*an\, Pelasgic \Pe*las"gic\, a. [L. Pelasgus, Gr. ? a Pelasgian.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Wandering.

ocher mutation \o"cher mu"tation\ n. [A humorous variation on the term amber mutation.] (Microbiology, Molecular biology) A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA. Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed, as can an amber mutation, by the presence of a special transfer RNA. -- ocher mutant, n.

Endophragmal \En`do*phrag"mal\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the endophragma.

Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]

1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. ``Give her a pot and a cake.''
   --De Foe.

4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

7. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
   --Knight.

8. A size of paper. See Pott.

9. marijuana. [slang]

10. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]

11. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.

12. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool. Jack pot. See under 2d Jack. Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. Pot companion, a companion in drinking. Pot hanger, a pothook. Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. Pot metal.

    1. The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.

    2. An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
       --Ure.

    3. A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
       --Knight.

       Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.

       Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.

       To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.]
       --Dryden.
       --J. G. Saxe.

Mistful \Mist"ful\, a. Clouded with, or as with, mist.

Lead \Lead\, v. i.

1. To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or pre["e]minence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.

2. To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.

   The mountain foot that leads towards Mantua.
   --Shak.

   To lead off or To lead out, to go first; to begin; as, Mickey Mantle led off in the fifth inning of the game.

Tabes \Ta"bes\ (t[=a]"b[=e]z), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Tabes dorsalis (t[=a]"b[=e]z d[^o]r*s[=a]"l[i^]s) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes.

Tabes mesenterica[NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.

Ransom \Ran"som\ (r[a^]n"s[u^]m), n. [OE. raunson, raunsoun, OF. ran[,c]on, raen[,c]on, raan[,c]on, F. ran[,c]on, fr. L. redemptio, fr. redimere to redeem. See Redeem, and cf. Redemption.]

1. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
   --Dryden.

2. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.

   Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
   --Milton.

   His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
   --Sir J. Davies.

3. (O. Eng. Law) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
   --Blackstone.

   Ransom bill (Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port.
   --Kent.

Ransom \Ran"som\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ransomed (-s[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Ransoming.] [Cf. F. ran[,c]onner. See Ransom, n.]

1. To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

2. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. [R.]

   Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year.
   --Berners.

Peltryware \Pelt"ry*ware`\, n. Peltry. [Obs.]