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A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.

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

kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key. Knight.

ger than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

sest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

y the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; -- named from the Sicilian tyrant, who constructed a device to overhear the prisoners in his dungeons. -- Ear sand (Anat…

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

n the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

lly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside the foul lines; -- called also a fair hit. -- Fair maid. (Zoöl.) (a) The European pilchard (Clupea pilchardus) when dried. (b) The southern scup (Stenotomus Gardeni). [Virginia] -- Fair one, a handsome woman; a beauty, --…

her finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.