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A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.

r less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

s to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

ent size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior.

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.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. The formation of the compounds of carbon is not depend…

An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

otton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.

Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy. "Carneous fibers." Ray.

Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.

or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.

A brown pigment of varying permanence, consisting of impure lignite. It was found originally near Cassel (now Kassel), Germany.

stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.…