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, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. -- Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, etc., in competition.

laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.

the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

Entering; penetrating.

or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.

Coming in together; entering; commingling. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome. Intrusive rocks (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted wi…

lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. "He joints the neck. Dryden. Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting. Holland.

Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.

The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. Bouvier. Wharton.

A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.

That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

heir eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman.

A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at watering places and health resorts in Germany.

Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

In a lagging manner; loiteringly.

A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson.

A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.