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set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.

Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

f the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. -- Circular functions. See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). -- Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. -- Discontinuous function. See unde…

rts to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the archer's bow. -- Funicular curve. Same as Catenary. -- Funicular machine (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a f…

together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. -- Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mas…

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. [Prov. Eng.]

bic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

One versed in galvanism.

One who oversees a gang of workmen. [R.] Mayhew.

mits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.

an type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called also Genevan Bible. -- Geneva convention (Mil.), an agreement made by represen…

One versed in geodesy.

One versed in geognosy; a geologist. [R.]

One versed in geography.

One versed in the science of geology.

One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.] Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif.