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See Parament. [Obs.]

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.

Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

dewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.

] This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme. Coleridge.

See Fleam.

In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson.

Divided into pieces.

An accumulation; a heap. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidæ. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.

A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.

The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.

Appraisement. [Obs.]

Prattle. [R.] Jeffrey.