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The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

A land tax. See Hidage.

A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.

the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak. Whose is this image and superscription Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27.

That may be imaged. [R.]

Having no image. Shelley.

One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [Obs.] Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.

The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden.

Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] Shelton.

See Endamage. [R.]

Not damaged. [Obs.] Milton.

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

The right or privilege of intercommoning.

Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.