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y; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

ertain point; to direct; to incline. "Bend thine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

sband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was dissolved. Jer. iii. 8. -- Bill of entry, a written account of goods entered at the customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation. -- Bill of exceptions. See under Exception. -- Bill of exchange (Com.), a written order or request from one person or ho…

ht along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

k, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or credit of a single account. -- Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which two entries of every transaction are carried…

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

urglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

f a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

To curve; to bend into a circular form. [Obs. except in carpentry and shipbuilding.] Shak.

Permissible; done lawfully; as, entry congeable.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.

ir amusement. -- Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. -- Court marsha…