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A guide rope.

, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

A guess warp.

The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

See Bloodstone (a). Heliotrope purple, a grayish purple color.

The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.

Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

Same as Ascites.

A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascr…