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The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.

of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

The inner, or mucous, membrance of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk. [Written also runnet.] Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the…

The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

Prov. Eng.] Drummond. Rider's bone (Med.), a bony deposit in the muscles of the upper and inner part of the thigh, due to the pressure and irritation caused by the saddle in riding.

le at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. W. Irving.

being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).

the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.

d. Addison. To saint it, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety. Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Shak.

Sir H. Wotton. Sally port. (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-d…

eath, and bring into a state of spiritual life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15.

oint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.

A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] Burns.

; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.

An hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.

the form of half of a circle. Addison. Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.

ts of acquired learning or of speculation." -- Moral sense. See under Moral, (a). -- The inner, or internal, sense, capacity of the mind to be aware of its own states; consciousness; reflection. "This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself, and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external obj…