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Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.

A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.

tful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3.

A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.

The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.

Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.

r genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

ion, under Close, a. -- Open diapason (Mus.), a certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end. -- Open flank (Fort.), the part of the flank covered by the orillon. -- Open-front furnace (Metal.), a b…

roach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.

y the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.

A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ. The deep, majestic, solemn orga…

A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.

To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.

See Ouch. [Obs.] Speser.

A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use. Ellis. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al, a. -- Pa`læ*o*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.