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A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.

ng. -- To hang together. (a) To remain united; to stand by one another. "We are all of a piece; we hang together." Dryden. (b) To be self- consistent; as, the story does not hang together. [Colloq.] -- To hang upon. (a) To regard with passionate affection. (b) (Mil.) To hover around; as, to hang upon the flanks of a r…

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.

Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.

An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

ayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray of cold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface o…

up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

lug. -- Hawse hole, a hole in the bow of a ship, through which a cable passes. -- Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut. -- Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above). -- To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshe…

In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

A piece of armor to protect the heels. Chesterfield.

To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.)

ttel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir.

ulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.

An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack. Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder. Shak.

with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton.

es' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

ever hear by tale or history. Shak. What histories of toil could I declare! Pope. History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the ph…