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silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

s named from him. Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).…

8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.

One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess. Arbuthnot.

One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.

One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse. Gay.

a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. With records sweet of duties done. Keble. To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.

Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies.

lay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed. -- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch. Knight. -- Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge.…

An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.

ining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro- magnet.

Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

ance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.