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A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.

ys vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

Antagonism to theology. Swift.

or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

vows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. Locke.

An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.

A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

f, a form of coral reef which runs in the general direction of the shore, and incloses a lagoon channel more or less extensive. -- To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. [Obs.]

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery,…

showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.