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r refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

lust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay.

; as, he belongs to the navy. Navy bean. see Bean. -- Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.

ough the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying…

To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to. Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.

Near to; not remote or distant from. "was not this nigh shore" Shak.

emarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucæ.

A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.

A treenail to fasten the shores.

ld age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.

t; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking. Jer. Taylor. The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.…

One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.

Having an odontophore.

Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. Addison. Off hand. See Offhand. -- Off side (Football), out of play; -- said when a player has got in front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball has been last touched by one of his own side behind him. -- To be off color, to…

That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.

Having the nature of, or belonging to, an oöphore.