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One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the o…

A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

od of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

il; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.

To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to as, to balk expectation. They shall not balk my entrance. Byron.

A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.

ethod of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

atropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.

devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden.