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A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

ncidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

f cabbage and other cruciferous plants. -- Cabbage butterfly (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See Cabbage worm, below. -- Cabbage Fly (Zoöl.), a small…

breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.

A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See Etagere.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.…

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow.

A sharp-pointed piece or iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a nore or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

stence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.

A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.

hout grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

s and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

To know; to understand. [Obs.] I can rimes of Rodin Hood. Piers Plowman. I can no Latin, quod she. Piers Plowman. Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. Shak.