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Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

, the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

he mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

phia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

eatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.