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A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. 4. pl.

small high-pressure cylinder with a piston acting on the beam between the center and the flywheel end, using high-pressure steam and working as a compound engine, -- a plan introduced by M'Naught, a Scottish engineer, in 1845.

Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

ically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. -- Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing. --…

The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

A celebrated epic poem of the Hindoos. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

Principally; chiefly.

alt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt floor, a floor for drying malt. -- Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a heated chamber for drying malt.…

an; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble. Let's briefly put on manly readiness. Shak. Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life. Dryden.

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

ritorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Swi…

of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.

any species of small American wrens of the genus Cistothorus, and allied genera. They chiefly inhabit salt marshes.

A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. Mask house, a house for masquerades. [Obs.]

assy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.

Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.