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A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.

A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something. Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires. South.

Superinduction.

The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced. South.

A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide- spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.…

See Trundle.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

n instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

To make like an angel; to angelize. [Obs.] Farindon (1647).

s. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. I fancy there was a background of grinding and waiting before Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

To grind or form the edge of to an angle. Moxon.