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fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.

ours. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott. Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.

from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. Kent.

correspondence of nicks; to tally with. Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. Camden.

A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. -- Non`con*ta"gious*ness, n.

avy round columns, and a great variety of ornaments, among which the zigzag and spiral or cable-formed ornaments were prominent.

y dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. -- Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse. -- Open hearth (Metal.), the shallow hearth of a reverberatory furnace. -- Open-hearth furnace, a reverberatory furnace; esp., a kind of reverberatory furna…

Practicable. [Obs.]

of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.

ndish women cause to sin. Neh. xiii. 26. Its barley water and its outlandish wines. G. W. Cable.

Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage. Addison. Parallel bar. (a) (Steam Eng.) A rod in a parallel motion which is parallel with the working beam. (b) One of a pair of bars raised about five feet above the floor or gr…

leave; to quit. [Obs.] Since presently your souls must part your bodies. Shak. To part a cable (Naut.), to break it. -- To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.

The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

vailable for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. "Try not the pass!" the old man said. Longfellow.

pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable. -- To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.]

The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin. The common peccability of mankind. Dr. H. More.