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A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

To cover or roof with shindles. [Obs.]

An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. [Slang] Thackeray.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid.

Behind; in the rear. Knolles.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

To tie up so as to hinder from. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

es a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.] Aforehand in all matters of power. Bacon.

Hinder; nearer the rear. (Naut.)

Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden.

Destructive to, or hindering the growth of, diphtheria bacilli. -- n.