Search the Dictionary

it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism. R. H. Hutton.

, U.S.] Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be…

To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.

One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

To shut up in, or as in, a sty. Shak.

dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style. [Written also substile.] Hutton.

ustralian flying phalanger (Belideus sciureus), having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under Phlanger. -- Sugar tongs, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl. -- Sugar tree. (Bot.) See Sugar maple, above.…

stinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.

the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [Obs.] Hutton.

The fifth power of a number; as, a is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] Hutton.

Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly tabernacular." De Quincey.

A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch. Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is wound.

he earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.

To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

escend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Hutton.

A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap. Chaucer.