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Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied genera; called also wood swallow.

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies.

h regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.

A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.

To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.

etc. Walton. J. H. Walsh. -- Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a. -- Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall. Raymond.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

posed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 18…

nce, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct. Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow. Stow.

thority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc. A levy of all the men left under sixty. Thirlwall.

liber. Libriform cells, peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.

e, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.]

An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.

sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed. -- Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.