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s a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

See Corrundum.

of a human being; -- used also Fig. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle…

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.

To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [Obs.] Drayton. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming. Shak.

Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; - - used chiefly with run or go. Running counter to all the rules of virtue. Locks.

Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

Running in an opposite direction.

The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.

Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

ies), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath. -- To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a r…

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn. See how this river comes me cranking in. Shak.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch. Swift.

ers who owe largely in a community. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster.

n narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.