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A song; esp. a little song or hymn. [Obs.] Bacon.

Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes. Bacon.

A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

ad or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

hat they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the capstan from turning back. -- To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the bars in the sockets. -- To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound around it.

A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon.

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

A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a cent…

nsisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

A large herbaceos plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a sald.

A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

oint; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.

A cylindrical roll of tobacco; as, a carotte of perique.

ich, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. Bacon.

intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

sed as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

t her fruit. Mal. iii. 11 The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc. Bacon.

A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change of f…