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Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.

A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface. Bilge keel (Naut.), a keel peculiar to ironclad vessels, extending only a portion of the length of the vessel under the bilges. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- False keel. See under False. -- Keel boat. (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on…

Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. -- n.

A military cap having a close-fitting band, a round flat top sloping toward the front, and a visor. As originally worn by the French in Algeria about 1830 it was tall and stiff with a straight visor. It is now lower, has a curved visor, and is frequently soft.

even. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.

A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak.

A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs.

nd their eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman.

n change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.

To provide with ridges, to assist the grasp, as in the edge of a flat knob, or coin; to mill.

ican antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face.

Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellæ. -- Lam"el*lar*ly, adv.

Having antennæ terminating in a group of flat lamellæ; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

(Zoöl.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

laugh at, to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. Pope. -- To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh secretly, or so as not to be observed, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward t…