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cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilatingshaft, etc.

set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.

In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

rt pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.

To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. -- To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.…

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

an chapel or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

osed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

ts the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm (Eupithecia). -- Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (R.…

rse; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the cur…

aracterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.

State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportio…

Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype.