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A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

line which bisects a system of parallel chords of a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of…

The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.

or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

ial purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale.

One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.

sband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of…

A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

rowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to t…

An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. A carriage covered with armorial bearings. Thackeray.