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A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

dison. There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. Bacon.

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

roat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.

A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]

A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." C. Reade.

The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

of the roof. -- Deck roof (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. -- Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. -- To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the deck (Ca…

ion of monarchy." Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. Waller.

; business declines. That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. Shak.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.