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by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

r the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

pon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.

in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.

The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.

A sort of bar or movable nut, attached to the finger board of a guitar or other fretted instrument for the purpose of raising uniformly the pitch of all the strings.

A hood; especialy, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with their apexes neary in contact. -- Carbon point (Elec.), a small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall contantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Car…

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

o the action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remakable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ. -- Car`po*spor"ic (, a.