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A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.

theast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of Asia.

thwest passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of America, long sought for by navigators.

To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along. [Prov. Eng.]

their parents in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.

o go with head poised like a swine, with nose down. Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. Arbuthnot.

resting on the bottom of the boat. -- To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. -- To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.

One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.

A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

odent (Cologenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

iformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; it…

A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.

a curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called also a paracentric. -- Paracentric motton or velocity, the motion or velocity of a revolvi…

A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. Job xxxix. 21.

Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight.