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The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel. Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercia…

Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.

imal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

ech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay. Who copied his squibs, and reëchoed his jokes. Goldsmith.

A kind of high rustic shoe. [Obs.] Drayton. A startuppe, or clownish shoe. Spenser.

A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.

Intensity; -- said of light or color. Bright Phoebus in his strength. Shak.

fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.

A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened. -- Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in whic…

th a surface. -- Surface grub (Zoöl.), the larva of the great yellow underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often destructive to the roots of grasses and other plants. -- Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to test other surfaces. -- Su…

To give back echoes; to reëcho. [Obs.] Chapman.

Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China] McElrath.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

sses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. Milton.

The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).

Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

d by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.