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Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

Composed pf two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.

density are mass ÷ (length)3. Dimension lumber, Dimension scantling, or Dimension stock (Carp.), lumber for building, etc., cut to the sizes usually in demand, or to special sizes as ordered. -- Dimension stone, stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimension…

Including two passovers. Carpenter.

; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

amask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

onvex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used in dovetailing.

e woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter. Duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter.

A species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

g or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton. Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -…

t belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.

Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter.

The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.