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stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

ostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

ental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

s, to meditate a war. I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose. Washington.

The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.

Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

ibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

mped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.

A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.

A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvæ in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.