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To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.

Regular order or proper condition. [Written also kilter.] [Colloq.] If the organs of prayer be out of kelter or out of tune, how can we pray Barrow.

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

ding to the kind or nature; natural. [R.] The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men. L. Andrews.

re. He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder. Ps. xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer.)

in to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.

to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers. [U. S.] -- Knights of Pythias, a secret order, founded in Washington, d.C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes. -- Knights of the Round Table, knights belonging to an order which, according to the legendary account…

An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge. [Written also cusso and kosso.]

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.

popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite en…

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers; having the form of a thin plate or lamina.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Laminate. Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

Having a structure consisting of laminæ, or thin layers.

ifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Written also lammergeyer.]

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name. Book of Common Prayer.