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ar that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.

A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.

A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.

A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. [U. S.]

The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

Same as Phyllodium.

A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.

Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.

A genus of fossil trees.

Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

A vein or dike crossing a lode.

er Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the fami…

air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

eor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his appoach.

ed in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.