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(Photog.) An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. Knight.

, a board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask. Knight. -- To follow the hounds, to hunt with dogs. -- To follow suit (Card Playing), to play a card of the same suit as the leading card; hence, colloquially, to follow an example set. -- To follow up, to pursue indefatigably.…

The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. Knight.

e plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight. -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern…

the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight.

ope Making), a winch or whirl by which a bunch of three yarns is twisted into a standard. Knight. -- To take time, or occasion, by the forelock, to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity. Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock;…

wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

orked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Knight.

The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. Knight.

f steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The b…

cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

e in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.

the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

lley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam.

newcomer. [Cant] Fielding. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

binding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow…