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nted, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.

A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.

Violescent. [R.]

A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping. G. Francis.

Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.

See Soluble glass, under Glass.

c pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope. Poor man's weatherglass. (Bot.) See under Poor.

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.

imilar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.

A small glass from to drink wine.

As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

See Xanthoma.

A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.

The posterior, or fourth, lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also xiphisternum.

Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

into a freehold, To abate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.