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One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

escott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

A pawnbroker. [Obs.] Howell.

tories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange l…

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

nk to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margi…

A stroke made with the cue held vertically.

Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

te or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.