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, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval. Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

s, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk). The Lacedemonians, at the Straits of Thermopylæ, when their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. Dryden. Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. Pope. Its self. See Itself…

A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.

ng or lowering the lower yards of a ship. Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.

t 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time of the Babylonian Exile. Nineteen years constitute a lunar cycle, of which the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years are leap years. The year 5663 [1902-3 a. d.] was the firs…

To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.

A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc. "Garden knots." Bacon. Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

ces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. Shak. When Jenny's stays are newly laced. Prior.

it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

A chief magistrate in rural districts. He was replaced in 1827 by "resident magistrates."

The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx.

times used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. Addison. A viol should have a lay of wire strings below. Bacon.

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. Hare.

A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.