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A forking, or division into two branches.

Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.

r; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

e in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

omposition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

ntrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.

rms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along t…

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

ion for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.

ed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.