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One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam. Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke.

the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. -- County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties a…

ng; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin.

ifficult. [R.] Care being taken not to add any of the cramp reasons for this opinion. Coleridge.

as found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

The ridge or top of wave. Like wave with crest of sparkling foam. Sir W. Scott.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

o, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning.

iduals of distinct races cross, a third is invariably produced different from either. Coleridge.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]

consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ. Coleridge.

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.