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The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

erate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus.

One who works in tin; a tinner.

A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.

assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which follows on slight resistance. It is used chiefly in 12-inch mortars.…

law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. The way of transgressors is hard. Prov. xiii. 15.

The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

A transgressor of the moral law; an offender; a sinner.

A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

d in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the trigon or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed i…

rocesses near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

late. See under Flue. -- Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. -- Tube spinner (Zoöl.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera. -- Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.…

The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback. Craig.

A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice. [Written also tiro.] The management of tyros of eighteen Is difficult. Cowper.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship. [Obs.] Blount.

The state of being a tyro, or beginner. [Written also tironism.]

the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Betwixt undern and noon was the field all won. R. of Brunne. In a bed of worts still he lay Till it was past undern of the day. Chaucer.

the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.