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hing that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry. Mulberry mass. (Biol.) See Morula. -- Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as…

s or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers. Blount. Muniment house or room, that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

ony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. -- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Music shell (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shel…

in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.

The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.

t or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.

A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.] There cometh a news thither with his horse. Pepys.

A newspaper. [Obs.]

or the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.

A seller of newspapers.

A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.

A man who distributes or sells newspapers.

news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.

An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

fly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.

In the service of; connected with; of the number of; as, he is on a newspaper; on a committee.

A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.

lineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.