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lding is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into i…

tmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Cæsalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C.Bonducella, bluish gray. [Spelt also neckar nut, nickar nut.]

To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. Spenser. To nip in the bud, to cut off at the verycommencement of growth; to kill in the incipient stage.

A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

ing. God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow. Herrick.

e present time. What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays Garrick.

Thackeray. Off side. (a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See Gee. (b) (Cricket) See Off, n.

A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.

e forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.

egarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.

ce; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

A trick; collusion. [Obs.] Bale. Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. --…

A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. Knight.

To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. They palmed the trick that lost the game. Prior.

A dexterous use or trick of the hand. Addison.

The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

ividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions. No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. Dryden.