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The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc. Gwilt.

mer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.

A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

Multiplying or magnifying sound. -- n.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

A proficient in the art of multiplying sounds; a ventriloquist.

A glass which makes a single object appear as many; a multiplying glass. Hutton.

bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.

A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

Implying actual presence; present, immediate. [Obs.] God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. un-, non-, -less.

Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence. All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange. Swift.

haped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.

Making a promise; implying a promise; promising. [R.]