Ahasuerus is a tank that runs blood or wine according to the hand that turns the spigot.

Hugh bewitch him, and turn his body into a barrel of strong ale, and let his nose be the spigot, his mouth the faucet, and his tongue a plug for the bunghole.

Stopper N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer^; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil^, pledget^, tompion^, tourniquet. cover &c 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.

His verse runs like the tap, and his invention as the barrel, ebbs and flows at the mercy of the spigot.

And yet there is a fine bracing mountain-air to be drawn from the material, as with a spigot, if you will only favor your mind with a digression from the tangible article to the wild-rose associations in which it is enveloped.

The varnished mahogany handle of the brass spigot, lest the moisture of the hand in turning it should soil its polish, and, will you believe it, the very pothooks as well as the cranes (for there were two), in the fireplace were as bright as your scissors!

One of these had a spigot in it, and as I had eaten little during the day, I was glad of a cup of claret and some food.

On the very first forenoon, our thirst was so excessive, that the farmer contrived to insert a spigot into this huge cask, and really such a treasure I think was hardly ever opened to a set of poor thirsty spirits.

It had a spigot on it as if it were made for traveling.

" She went to the spigot and let the water run into the bucket, while she extended her palm in his direction.

Perhaps some of my readers, like myself, have heard this story told by Roger Turnbull, now host of the George and Dragon, the grandson of the very Tony who then swayed the spigot and keys of that inn, in the identical kitchen of which the fiend treated so many of the neighbours to punch.

in thickness, and surrounded by puddle; the pipes were of cast iron, of the spigot and faucet type, probably yarned and leaded at the joints as usual, and the sluice valves were situated at the outer end of the pipes.

The house could go on without his making the rounds daily from the cellars to the roof, overseeing even the slightest spigot.

In May, 1793, we find the absent owner writing to his manager: "If for the sake of making a little butter (for which I shall get scarcely anything) my calves are starved, & die, it may be compared to stopping the spigot, and opening the faucit."

He quickly fastened one end of it to the spigot of a molasses barrel, which stood about half way back in the store.

And well he might, for the spigot of the molasses barrel was wide open, and the sticky brown fluid was running all over the floor.

" He did not waste time in words, however, but hastened to shut the spigot of the molasses barrel to stop the wasteful flow.

" "Did you pull the spigot open?"

When I was down cellar gittin' it he tied a string to the molasses barrel spigot and stretched it across the doorway.

" "What, the spigot?" "No, the string.

I tripped over the string an' it pulled the spigot open.

"Molasses runs awful slow, and the spigot wasn't open more than three minutes.

A stem could connect all the spigots and control them by a single movement, so that once attached, he had only to press a button concealed in the woodwork to turn on all the taps at the same time and fill the mugs placed underneath.

The few Provençal words which became English are interesting; colander or cullender (now a vegetable strainer; Prov. colador), funnel, puncheon, rack, spigot, league, noose are directly derived from Provençal and not through Northern French and are words connected with shipping and the wine trade, the port for which was Bordeaux.

I used to say of Pulszky that he was like a barrel full to the bung with generous liquor, which flowed in a full stream, stick the spigot in where you would.