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of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

oof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.

The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; -- used as a unit of pressure.

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

ndied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

e for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

The central tongue bone.

A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.

circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

s and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion i…

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.