n. [ OE. archerie. ] 1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let all our archery fall off
In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bleacheries A place or an establishment where bleaching is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n. ] 1. The business of a butcher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. kachahri. ] A hindu hall of justice. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Debaucheries 1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for hatching fish, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lecherie, OF. lecherie. See Lecher. ] 1. Free indulgence of lust; excessive indulgence in sexual relations; -- used mostly of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Selfish pleasure; delight. [ Obs. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Theft; cheating. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ocherous. [ Written also ochrey, ochry. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. spreidh cattle. ] Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Needlework; -- in contempt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. supercherie. ] Deceit; fraud; imposition. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trecherïe, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See Trickery, Trick. ] Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Be ware, ye lords, of their treachery. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vacherie, from vache a cow, L. vacca. Cf. Vaccary. ] 1. An inclosure for cows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dairy. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Prompt. Parv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Witcheries 1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great Comus,
Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman infamous . . . for witcheries. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. [ 1913 Webster ]

He never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dear, dear witchery of song. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]