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A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached t…

To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak.

confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.

A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.

as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet. Coleridge. Now help, ye charming spells and periapts. Shak.

Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.

s; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

One who advocates a phonetic spelling.

To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.]

hich grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as a varnish, in making candles, and as a substitute for incense and for amber. Called also liquid copal, and whit…

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

mplete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

aration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice,…

To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty. Kent.

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa. [Spellt also polypid.]

A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.

tion, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof. "'T is positive 'gainst all exceptions." Shak.

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.