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ement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet.…

To rob on foot. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.

Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

inted stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. Mortimer.

e act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

e or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called also a paracentric. -- Paracentric motton or velocity, the motion or velocity of a revolving body, as a planet, by which it approaches to, or recedes from, the center, without reference to its motion in space, or to its motion as reckoned in any other direction.…

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)

At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

Full of pebbles; pebbled. "A hard, pebbly bottom." Johnson.

Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

ive times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

A penthouse. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.