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A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.

One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

d the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Somet…

credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.…

A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

A flying machine.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

The act of avouching; positive declaration. [Obs.] Milton.

A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

zedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.…

An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

A bag-shaped net for catching fish.