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An outer or external angle.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the c…

A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sa) lying between those islands and Central America.

eel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

l; hence, an eggshell filled with confetti to be thrown during balls, carnivals, etc. [Western U. S.]

An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

ns are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on st…

whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

he surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

ons . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.