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A French baggage wagon.

The European dragonet.

The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

ee under Bridge. -- Lattice girder, a girder consisting of longitudinal bars united by diagonal crossing bars. -- Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars int…

To bite in agony or rage. They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev. xvi. 10.

The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm. [Prov. Eng.]

ds engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.] -- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.] -- Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note under Car, n., 2.

See Dragont. [Scot.]

Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic…

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon.

- Green diallage. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. -- Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root. -- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive roc…

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

Agonizing; sad. [Obs.] Spenser.

he llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state. [Written also huanaco.]

Of or pertaining to gules; red. "Those fatal guly dragons." Milton.

cistus, a plant of the genus Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose.-- Gum dragon. See Tragacanth. -- Gum elastic, Elastic gum. See Caoutchouc. -- Gum elemi. See Elemi. -- Gum juniper. See Sandarac. -- Gum kino. See under Kino. -- Gum lac. See Lac. -- Gum Ladanum, a fragrant gum yielded by several Or…