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A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

he head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

carries the mail. -- Mail catcher, an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail train, a railroad train carrying the mail.

line; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

ervice. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.

as, to take one's measure for a coat. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. Job xi. 9.

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

y with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak.

Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to Ant: megaseme.

being in, the middle of a ship. Midship beam (Naut.), the beam or timber upon which the broadest part of a vessel is formed. -- Midship bend, the broadest frame in a vessel. Weale.

The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr.

gregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. [Written also milage.] Constructive mileage, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made. Bartlett.

Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

lain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

on school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.