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Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

ding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

inging sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

ch can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym: [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, co…

A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

riking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

ers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [U. S.]

ds of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a…

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

re of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car. [U. S.]

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

ak. England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple.

itution. [Colloq.] Thackeray. The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads. Compton Reade.

uantities in the equation, and their relations to each other. -- Construction train (Railroad), a train for transporting men and materials for construction or repairs.

r instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.