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being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.

To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter. It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.

A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.

A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

See Fodder, a unit of weight.

Four times twenty; eighty.

A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.

Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her." Shak.

velation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift.

genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

See Fodder, a weight.

flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson.

at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. -- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its extremities, and sustaini…

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.

ly called the track. -- Gauge cock, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. -- Gauge concussion (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. -- Gauge glass, a glass tube for a water gauge. -- Gauge lathe, an automatic lathe…

A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.