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The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.

nalogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.

A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. He wooeth her by means and by brokage. Chaucer. By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means. -- By any means, in any way; possibly; at all. If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Phil. iii. ll. -- By no means, or By no manner of m…

h a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Men moot give silver to the poure triars. Chaucer. A privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer.

Murky. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

re; clouded; as, misty sight. The more I muse therein [theology], The mistier it seemeth. Piers Plowman.

sley. Rankine. -- Modulus of a system of logarithms (Math.), a number by which all the Napierian logarithms must be multiplied to obtain the logarithms in another system. -- Modulus of elasticity. (a) The measure of the elastic force of any substance, expressed by the ratio of a stress on a given unit of the substanc…

A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.

A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

A show; a display. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

ving little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.

le beam (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -…

One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.

Nose. [Obs.] Piers plowman.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

rative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.…

To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman. All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.