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State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.)

r imagine something without proof. If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. Locke.

from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.

Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] Bale.

Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. Shak.

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

A hole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out. (b) The tap hole of a melting furnace. Knight.

night. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. -- Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.

natural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. Dryden.

ial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. Milton.

Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroa…