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ut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pres…

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. Gwilt.

Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe.

Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt.

To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. For shunting your late partner on to me. T. Hughes.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]

A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] Dr. H. More.

To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The track of man or beast as followed by the scent. [Scot.] Halliwell.

A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.

The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind. Milton. As a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. Sir W. Scott.

To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong." Young.

To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott.

Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. Chaucer.

A crack, or longitudinl fissure.