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An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call"). [U. S.]

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

An original (book or document). [Obs.] "Authentics and transcripts." Fuller.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

d which the prismatic rings or curves are arranged. Brewster. -- Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the lin…

, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. -- v. t.

isconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Lo…

A description of baths.

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. "Under ban to touch." Milton.

A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.