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over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers.

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, invented or practiced by Krupp, the details of which are secret. It is understood to involve the addition of chromium as well as nickel to the metal, and to include a treatment like that of the Harvey process with unknown variations or additions. The product is menti…

ts. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).

A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates. Ladies' man, a man who affects the society of ladies. -- Lady altar, an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley. -- Lady chapel, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. -- Lady court, the court of a lady of the manor. -- Lady c…

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

In thin plates or scales.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the form a piece of armor.

A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

Capable of being split into laminæ or thin plates, as mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or strip. When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable. Ure.…

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder. Youatt.

A thin plate or lamina. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing. Knight.

for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used. Lath brick, a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. Lath nail a slender nail for fastening laths.

Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten. Black latten, brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire. -- Roll latten, latten polished on both sides ready for use. -- Shaven latten, a thinner kind than black latten. --…