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A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings, through which the reins pass. It is intended to hold down the head of the horse, and prevent him from rearing.

e-shaped divisions. Mascled armor, armor composed of small lozenge-shaped scales of metal fastened on a foundation of leather or quilted cloth.

e (Founding), a board or plate on the opposite sides of which the halves of a pattern are fastened, to facilitate molding. Knight. -- Match wheel (Mach.), a cogwheel of suitable pitch to work with another wheel; specifically, one of a pair of cogwheels of equal size.

bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened. [Written also matress.]

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.

The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

leviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak.

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

oderately. Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. -- Andante moderato, a little faster than andante.

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.

floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

A clasp for fastening garments in front. Fairholt.

To plaster or make fast with mortar.

bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.

To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

eous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound Dryden. Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.