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In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.]

Evasive. [Obs.] Milton.

, a small black leaping poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers. -- Snow flood, a flood from melted snow. -- Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree. -- Snow fly, or Snow insect (Zoöl.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentar…

ame to emit sounds and noting their character; as, to sound a piece of timber; to sound a vase; to sound the lungs of a patient.

A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.

Extending far and wide; vast in extent. "A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide." Milton.

less organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.

A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.

hand lever for working the values in starting an engine. -- Starting hole, a loophole; evasion. [Obs.] -- Starting point, the point from which motion begins, or from which anything starts. -- Starting post, a post, stake, barrier, or place from which competitors in a race start, or begin the race.

One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna. Steppe murrain. (Far.) See Rinderpest.

Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten.

A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar.

The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

To swell; to bulge out. [R.] The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

nt or absolute control of another; to vanquish. He subjugated a king, and called him his "vassal." Baker.

cape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. Burke.