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The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.

a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.

A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

ked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, espec…

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

The basket, box, or cage suspended from a ballon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores.

the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

ian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. -- Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m'r' = c, where r and r' are th…

A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

hich is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.