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Full of bridges. [R.] Sherwood.

together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material. Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a projectile. -- Blank cartrige, a cartridge without a projectile, -- Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the cap…

See under Cartridge.

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

To form into ridges. Shak.

A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.

To rub; to fray. [Obs.] Sterne.

See Langrage.

A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

enus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. Chaucer.

, and very acid berries, -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo. [Written also piperidge and pipperidge.] Pepperidge bush (Bot.), the barberry.

Same as Pepperidge.

e, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

Quarterage. [Obs.]

To form into round ridges by plowing. B. Edwards.

The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper.

See Water table.