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A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.…

A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe. Blind flange, a plate for covering or closing the end of a pipe. -- Flange joint, a joint, as that of pipes, where the connecting pieces have flanges by which the parts are bolted together. Knight. - Flange rail, a rail with a flange on one…

A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock. -- Floating cartilage (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter. -- Floating dam. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as…

The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison.

. -- Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of the genus Meligethes, family Nitidulidæ, some of which are injurious to cro…

Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.

To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon.

Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as:

A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.

t or place. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

The platform at the head of the foremast.