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A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also stoccade.]

To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.

is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.

Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt. [Obs.]

jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.

The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.

ch certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.

Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.

stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.

, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

ibes of southern Alaska comprising the Koluschan stock. Previous to deterioration from contact with the whites they were the foremost traders of the northwest. They built substantial houses of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slavery, the potlatch, and the use of immens…

To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

he web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.

Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

Being without trenches; whole; intact. [Obs.]

nder Steam. -- Valve face (Mach.), that part of the surface of a valve which comes in contact with the valve seat. -- Valve gear, or Valve motion (Steam Engine), the system of parts by which motion is given to the valve or valves for the distribution of steam in the cylinder. For an illustration of one form of valve…

One of the specialized or tactile hairs which grow about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so- called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.