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vernor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.

hial fremitus. Etym: [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring.] (Med.) A vibration of the chest wall that may be felt by the hand laid upon its surface. It is caused in the production of rhonchi in the bronchial tubes.

An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to râle in its widest sense. See Râle.

glorious; Each minute shall be rich in some great action. Rowe. The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton.

in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. Macaulay.

A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.

merary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. Give my roan a drench. Shak.

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.

us niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. -- Sable iron, a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable. -- Sable mouse (Zoöl.), the lemming.

A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers, or the like.

The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

common dog flea. (b) the chigoe. (c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach. -- Sand flood, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce. -- Sand fluke. (Zoöl.) (a) The sandnecker. (b) The European smooth dab (Pleuronectes microcephalus); -- called also…

A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.

ax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine. [Obs.] But laid them up in immortial scrine. Spenser.

To inculcate rigid rules. [R.] Chesterfield.