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sting, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quali…

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…

A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.

e mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

A pack of hounds. Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak.

ube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

ompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston;

nity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut a dash or a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] -- To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to…

then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.

represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algæ, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores. D. C. Eaton.

owing from that point toward which a vessel would go. -- Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead…

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.