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A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

The principal component part of a thing.

A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. Milton.

A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.

f a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age.

That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment. [Scot.]

Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. Best man, the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [inf…

Bishoplike; episcopal. [Obs.]

The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.