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no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.

A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. We saw him at the opening of his tent. Shak.

The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion. [R.]

xalate. It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic soda or potash on sawdust, as a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation of formic acid, and in salts of lemon for…

es on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.

o acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist. [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone. Tylor.

In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.

A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.

gion of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. -- Pit viper (Zoöl.), any viperine snake having a deep pit on each side of…

One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.

or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone. Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton.

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

Impression; stamp; character impressed. All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past. Shak.

One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvæ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

art a proper man." Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. Heb. xi. 23.

y expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon.

Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.

d in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious. It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. Baker.