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Without eyes; blind. "Eyeless rage." Shak.

.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

Plowed land. [Obs.] Who . . . pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.

the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluctuations in their prices are a…

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight.

y the nerves of sensation; -- followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth. Dryden. To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." Acts xvii. 27. - To feel o…

To cover with, or as with, felt; as, to felt the cylinder of a steam emgine.

Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

A fernlike plant. Lindley.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

reading, reading printed in relief so as to be sensible to the touch; -- so made for the blind. -- Finger shell (Zoöl.), a marine shell (Pholas dactylus) resembling a finger in form. -- Finger sponge (Zoöl.), a sponge having finger-shaped lobes, or branches. -- Finger stall, a cover or shield for a finger. -- Finge…

Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.

Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose. Lindley.

A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. [Obs.] Where's the Frenchman Alas, he's all fitters. Beau. & Fl.

wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc. Knight.

the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.