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is), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.

A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.

as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.

A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.

o make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.

A despicable fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, opera…

. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting…

in Great Britain. (b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. Dr. Prior. -- London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (Sisymbrium Irio) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins of the great fire of 1667.

c. -- Pitch chain, a chain, as one made of metallic plates, adapted for working with a sprocket wheel. -- Pitch line, or Pitch circle (Gearing), an ideal line, in a toothed gear or rack, bearing such a relation to a corresponding line in another gear, with which the former works, that the two lines will have a common…

rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers. -- Rag wheel. (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel. (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel. -- Rag wool, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits, shoddy.

To put under cover; to sheal. [Prov.ng.] Brockett.

A blow; a smart stroke. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding of a air, presents a starlike appearance.

whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

Long and flexible, like a wand. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like; -- called also wax end. Brockett.