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A kingbolt of a wagon.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

m, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.

e mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.

Manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals nearly as hard as quartz.

To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton. Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed…

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively. Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey.

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally. [Formerly written pointal.]

the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests. "The priests of Dagon." 1 Sam. v. 5. Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts xiv. 13. Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, t…

to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

ticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Tetragonal. Pyramidal numbers (Math.), certain series of figurate numbers expressing the number of balls or points that may be arranged in the form of pyramids. Thus 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are trangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.

The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.

Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.