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One of the lobes of a whale's tail, so called from the resemblance to the fluke of an anchor.

In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.

A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

reatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulance corps. Great Britain signed the convention in 1865. -- Geneva cross (Mil.), a red Greek cross on a white…

Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate.

full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

arge blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. Wilhelm.

An enticing look or glance. [Obs.] A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl.

A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.

Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relati…

To forbear; to avoid. I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author. Pope.

genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was…