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A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timb…

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.

e occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens.

The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay.

The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

ters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.

The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty them understandi…

The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. [R.]

Vassals, collectively; vassalry. [R.] Shak.