1. a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
2. a man's close-fitting jacket, having a collar and lapels and reaching just below the waist, worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
3. an English wig of the 18th century.

1. a large gaff sail used abaft a square-rigged foremast or abaft the mainmast of a ship or bark.

1. a .52 caliber, lever-action repeating rifle and carbine patented in the U.S. in 1860 and used by the Union army and navy in the Civil War.

1. British statesman: prime minister 1718–21.
2. English philosopher.
3. U.S. calligrapher and teacher of penmanship.
4. a town in NW Iowa.
5. a town in central Massachusetts.
6. a male given name.

1. a short fitted coat or jacket
2. a woman's knitted vest

1. a large loose-footed gaffsail on a square-rigger or barque

1. Herbert. 1820–1903, English philosopher, who applied evolutionary theory to the study of society, favouring laissez-faire doctrines
2. Sir Stanley. 1891–1959, English painter, noted esp for his paintings of Christ in a contemporary English setting

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