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to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.

have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller. The valiant never taste of death but once. Shak.

ause it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

ause it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

n part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle. Like moving mountains topped with snow. Waller. A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires. Milton.

Translucent. [Obs.] The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.

The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond.

A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt.

The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

imitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primit…

sts; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.

A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.