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are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

Adjointing the shore.

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

r near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

thods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- CCivil war. See under War. -- Civil yea…

In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).…

uct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

e from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.

ylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the be…

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

The highest point; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.

of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.