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An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.

A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten.

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth. It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for…

That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.

Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

One of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.

ithin a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes…

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices. The Salii sing and cense his altars round. Dryden.