[ AS. Chiltern the Chiltern, high hills in Buckinghamshire, perh. Fr. ceald cold + ern, ærn, place. ] A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. drège, dreige, fish net, from a word akin to E. draw; cf. D. dreg, dregge, small anchor, dregnet dragnet. √73. See Draw. ] 1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dredged p. pr. & vb. n. Dredging. ] To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine. R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dredging machine, a machine (commonly on a boat) used to scoop up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of rivers, docks, etc., so as to deepen them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dragge, F. dragée, dredge, also, sugar plum; cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr. tragh`mata, fr. trw`gein to gnaw. ] A mixture of oats and barley. [ Obs. ] Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who fishes with a dredge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dredging machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. en- + OF. fouldre, foldre, lightning, F. foudre, L. fulgur. ] Mixed with, or emitting, lightning. [ Obs. ] “With foul enfouldred smoke.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hundred, AS. hundred a territorial division; hund hundred + a word akin to Goth. ga-raþjan to count, L. ratio reckoning, account; akin to OS. hunderod, hund, D. hondred, G. hundert, OHG. also hunt, Icel. hundrað, Dan. hundrede, Sw. hundra, hundrade, Goth. hund, Lith. szimtas, Russ. sto, W. cant, Ir. cead, L. centum, Gr. "ekato`s, Skr. çata. √309. Cf. Cent, Century, Hecatomb, Quintal, and Reason.] 1. The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. [1913 Webster]

With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak. [1913 Webster]

☞ The word hundred, as well as thousand, million, etc., often takes a plural form. We may say hundreds, or many hundreds, meaning individual objects or units, but with an ordinal numeral adjective in constructions like five hundreds, or eight hundreds, it is usually intended to consider each hundred as a separate aggregate; as, ten hundreds are one thousand. [1913 Webster]

2. A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. [1913 Webster]

Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

a. Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hundred times as much or as many. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2, 000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination -r&aemacr_;den, akin to AS. r&aemacr_;dan to advise, G. rathen. Cf. Hatred. ] 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think there's no man is secure
But the queen's kindred. Shak.

Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions. [ 1913 Webster ]

True to the kindred points of heaven and home. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Filthy; obscene; ribald. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not kindred; not of the same kin. [ Obs. ] Rowe. -- Un*kin"dred*ly, a. [1913 Webster]