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A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

A low stool [Scot.]

A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

of the southern United States, bearing red drupes and having soft, white, close- grained wood; -- called also dahoon holly.

The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.

A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

State of the dead. [Obs.]

A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

The duykerbok.

One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.

A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.

Indian millet. See Durra.

Dichroic.

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.

To unroof. [R.] Carlyle.

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

See Canine tooth, under Canine.