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t. "Right at mine own cost." Chaucer. Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. Chaucer. His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. Fairfax.

An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.

Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer.

A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.

racen's consound (Bot.), a kind of ragewort (Senecio Saracenicus), anciently used to heal wounds.

n obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penæa), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.

Bearing scars or marks of wounds.

To cut superficially; to wound; to score. We have scotched the snake, not killed it. Shak. Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

ub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bi…

ia), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. -- Screw wrench. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. -- To put the screw, or screws, on, to use pressure upon, as…

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows.…

To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

of the eruption in smallpox. -- Secondary hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage occuring from a wounded blood vessel at some considerable time after the original bleeding has ceased. -- Secondary planet. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Secondary qualities, those qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from th…

A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

ensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.