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An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

icted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both…

eled, mine are general." Shak. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; - - said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross. [Written also paté, patee.]

To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. The warrior's name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame. J. Barlow.

Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.…

om one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.

A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. -- Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. -- Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, c…

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. "Hangman boys in the market place." Shak.

Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.…

A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.