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A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.

A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

See Contradance. He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macualay.

s; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

n, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon.

isease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.

A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.

; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

tion; to confine and contract; to hinder. The mind my be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance. Layard.

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence. To give credence to the Scripture miracles. Trench. An assertion which might easily find credence. Macualay.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

es and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the f…

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.