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s strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft. Totten.

d, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast. Totten.

employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of wh…

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. -- To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christ…

A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation…

A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.

To totter; to shake; -- said of a thing. The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble. Milton.

Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

ead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten.

ail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

ing impressed form; stamp; print; type; typical form; representative; as in stereotype phototype, ferrotype, monotype.

To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten.

To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. Totten.

tion. (b) With sails set, though the anchor is down. (c) Same as Under canvas (a), above. Totten. -- Under sentence, having had one's sentence pronounced. -- Under the breath, with low voice; very softly. -- Under the lee (Naut.), to the leeward; as, under the lee of the land. -- Under the rose. See under Rose, n.…

w the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten.

Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels. Totten.

Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world. Shak. At which the universal host up dent A shout that tore Hell's concave. Milton.