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sage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. H. Sweet. Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side o…

An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

en; haughty; proud. [Poetic] "Countenance sublime and insolent." Spenser. His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule. Milton.

h the hammer resting on the left forearm, which is passed horizontally across the body in front; also, the position assumed in response to this command.

suprarenal capsule. Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies.

ove, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.

than adults; a man of a susceptible heart. Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. Lamb. -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reëntrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.

A bar attached to the hounds, in the rear of the front axle, so as to slide on the reach as the axle is swung in turning the vehicle.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

r resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, the front one somewhat elevated.

A mountain lake or pool. A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below. Wordsworth.

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.

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

formed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece Locke. Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor…

A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.

Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. -- n.