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A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

A small steam which flows into a large one.

A large assemblage; a passing multitude.

nformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

The conger eel; -- called also congeree. Conger sea (Zoöl.), the sea eel; a large species of eel (Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

ople who habitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay.

public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list,…

of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.

The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.

s to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa. The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. Tennyson.

facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton.

A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.

taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

orting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.