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The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a poin…

The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.

he image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage. By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

A place for mooring.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.

Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] acon.

causing shipwreck. [Obs.] r. Taylor.

Brazil wood.

One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.

Stormy. [R.]

The lammergeir.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior. Whose bare outbragg'd the web it seemed to wear. Shak.

To rage in excess of. [R.] Young.