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prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. Bunyan.

Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. [Obs.] Nares.

To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.

A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.

an unknightly or unscientific manner. [Obs.] Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely. Massinger.

zek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the f…

ther confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.

A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.

To hurl; to throw; to cast. [Obs.] I'll thrill my javelin. Heywood.

the floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them. Cf. Deck bridge, under Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also through stane.] Sir W. Scott. -- Throug…

to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.…

Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

nt handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon. He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. Macaulay.

A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.

A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.] Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser.