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ste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.

The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

written out continuously, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures attached to the bass; continued bass.

other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

To attack; to bait. [Obs.] Spenser.

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

l, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

ly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea), growing on the sandy shores of lakes and seas, which, by its interlaced running ro…

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

art of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.] -- To bear away (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind. -- To bear back, to retreat. "Bearing back from the blows of their sable antago…

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.