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A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.

An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.

specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.…

mpt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.

A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.

A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. J. Knowels. In term, in set terms; in formal phrase. [Obs.] I can not speak in term. Chaucer. -- Term fee (Law) (a), a fee by the term, chargeable to a suitor, or by law fixed and taxable in the costs of a cause for each or any term it is in court. -- Terms…

A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. [Obs.] Chambers.

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

A hypothetical compound, C2H2N4 which may be regarded as benzene with four CH groups replaced by nitrogen atoms; also, any of various derivatives of the same. There are three isomeric varieties.

y the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want. Behol…

A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.

To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.

One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.

The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.