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The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

en apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.

iangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.

A solid body of six sides or faces. Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.

ing to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

a large, coarse, commercial sponge (Spongia equina). -- Horse stinger (Zoöl.), a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.] -- Horse sugar (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the United States (Symplocos tinctoria), whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder. -- Horse tick (Zoöl.), a winged, dipterous insect (Hippobosca equ…

. Hub plank (Highway Bridges), a horizontal guard plank along a truss at the height of a wagon-wheel hub. -- Up to the hub, as far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire; deeply involved. [Colloq.]

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

t so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

rable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. They are quantities incommensurable. Burke. -- In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*men"su*ra*bly, adv.…

Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant. We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. Burke.

To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore. If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. Milton.

To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.

alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; -- said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.

A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.

fted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]