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Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

ance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. And he [Joab] took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom. 2 Sa. xviii. 14.

A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye. Totten.

ty, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour. Num. xv. 9. As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. M. Arnold. She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Bl…

h and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]

s, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.

Anything decompounded. Decomposites of three metals or more. Bacon.

ence. All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke.

Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.

. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in

etry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.

as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.

tive vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.

Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

ell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

n which has length and breadth, but no thickness; a plane or curved surface. -- Space of three dimensions, extension which has length, breadth, and thickness; a solid. -- Space of four dimensions, as imaginary kind of extension, which is assumed to have length, breadth, thickness, and also a fourth imaginary dimensio…