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d by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke.

inst attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.

A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

ow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.

n the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. -- Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of receiving color.…

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Prov. xvi. 33. If we draw lots, he speeds. Shak.

rine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon its own shell; a carrier shell. -- Mason wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp that constructs its nest, or brood cells, of hardened mud. The female fills the cells with insects or spiders, paralyzed by a sting, and thus provides f…

In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.

Full of pebbles; pebbled. "A hard, pebbly bottom." Johnson.

To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.

; to cast down from a precipice or height. She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river. W. Irving.

A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. [Written also pryan.]

ring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

Obs.] But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom. Chapman. Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind. Woodward.

To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.

ch are not coherent when wet. That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles. Woodsward.

like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.