Search the Dictionary

A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.

Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written also sophta.]

The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. Totten.

The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. Spear foot, the off hind foot of a horse. -- Spear grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, n., 1. (b) meadow grass. See under Meadow. -- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the m…

species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand. Sphex fly (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Conops and allied genera. The form of the body is similar to t…

The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar.

rom its point of insertion, with the detachment of a shell of bone to which the tendon is attached.

An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See État Major.

Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.

through which the hanks pass which join it to the stay. -- Stay tackle (Naut.), a tackle attached to a stay and used for hoisting or lowering heavy articles over the side. -- To miss stays (Naut.), to fail in the attempt to go about. Totten. -- Triatic stay (Naut.), a rope secured at the ends to the heads of the for…

e; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.

means of them. Stereotype block, a block, usually of wood, to which a stereotype plate is attached while being used in printing.

e rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.stern wheeler.

the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body. Our host upon his stirpoes s…

he principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. Specifically: --

One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.

To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.

A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.