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k) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.

y laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

o frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.

ved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon.

y early life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

son. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.

ramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.

and lips. -- Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. -- Cream nut, the Brazil nut. -- Cream of lim…

In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

nner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

s of religion. that he would never have brought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. Crocodile bird (Zoöl.), an African plover (Pluvianus ægypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile…

fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. Crooked whisky, whisky on wich the paiment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] Barlett.

The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.

To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.

Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. Macaulay.

Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.

Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.