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A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.

he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See under Ashes. -- To bite the dust. See…

place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, o…

A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.

experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.

A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [Archaic] I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.

r excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.

emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.