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Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.

The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.

A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] Gower.

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins. [U. S.]

See Terrapin.

A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine.

Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.

living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written also terapin, terrapen, terrapene, and turapen.]

use there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.

Heavy; large. [Colloq.]

A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double- tonguing.

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

In a topping or proud manner.

ide of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine. " Transalpine garbs." Beau. & Fl.

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.

Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.