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species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappo…

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.

A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.

a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.

A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.

A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

l parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.

A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.…

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. Shak.

The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

ut a projectile, -- Center-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the capsule, instead of being contained in its rim. In the Prussian needle gun the fulminate is applied to the middle of the base of the bullet. Rim-fire cartridge, a cartridge i…

A tax on every plow or plowland.