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To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor. [Collog.]

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist.

A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their bl…

A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.

c; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

semblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

vy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T…

Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.

One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point. Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the…

The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

r, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.

in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made. Chambers.