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The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

n the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).

To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.] I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Pepys. They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. South.

and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.

own in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. Burke. Casting of draperies. See under Casting. The casting of…

ectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

an stinging ant; one of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or devour all insects and other small animals.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov. They believe that Christ was wholly human, but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals. They accept the Ten Commandments and the "useful" portions of the Bible, but deny the need of rulers, priests, or churches, and have no c…

y remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. And you may carve a shrine about my dust. Tennyson.

uld give no ear to his suit. Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Shak. About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely h…

he mother of safety. Burke. The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. Hawthorne.

The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law. Wharton.

motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation. -- Eccentric hook or gab, a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap. -- Eccentric rod, the rod that connects as eccentric strap with any…

The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.

A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23º 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public. Gibbon.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

here have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists. Holmes.