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as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.

A channel or a system of channels; a groove.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.…

A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, gi…

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad. This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper. Knolles.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.

A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.

One who makes grooves or flutings.