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A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

tions are unknown, seated along the bronchia. -- Bronchial membrane, the mucous membrane lining the bronchia. -- Bronchial tube, the bronchi, or the bronchia.

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor. Knight.

The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.

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

Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.…

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

The act of lying down; a reclining. [Obs.]

The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as. the culture of the mind. If vain our toil We ought to blame theculture, not the soil. Pepe.

impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.

Declining; sloping.