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An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (Sport)

To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, acorn, or pain. The pangs of death do make him grin. Shak.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.

iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.] Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

er rounded; -- said of a file. -- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, between the open position and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred instruments. See Shift. -- Half step (Mus.), a semitone; the smallest difference of pitch or interval, used in music. -- Half tide, the time or state of the…

oney received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herri…

a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carel…

A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.

A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. Shak.

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.

A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.

A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.

A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.

The opening by which the two scalæ communicate at the top of the cochlea of the ear.

Having a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.