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A player. [R.] B. Jonson.

To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. Beau. & Fl.

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.

act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

arth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.

A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the drums." Shak. (b) To begin to sing o…

A layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.

Situated under a horny part or layer.

That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.

That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player. [Colloq.]

A stratum, or layer, above another.

Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.

A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam. Raymond.

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles. [Colloq. U.S.]