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Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. -- Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the…

rch, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

e holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

en two ridges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

n by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.

Same as Tussock grass, below.

ed before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18º below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

Situated beyond or below the red rays; as, the ultrated rays of the spectrum, which are less refrangible than the red.

and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house. Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let down into wells under water, will keep long. Bacon. Be gathered now, ye…

A garment worn below another.

To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below. Cowper.

To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services.

A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.

Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

To blind below; to gird round the bottom. They used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17.

To go or move below or under. [Obs.]