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cine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wa…

st, Before the mast. See under Afore, and Before. -- Mast coat. See under Coat. -- Mast hoop, one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See Made.

Extreme constipation. [Obs.] Hooper.

ly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.…

The whooping cough.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. Hooper.

To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify. Shak. [Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith. Tennyson.

A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers. Hooper.

A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending…

A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.

rt) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.

Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

and consolidating concrete under water, essentially a tube of wood or sheet metal with a hooperlike top. It is usually handled by a crane.

To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.

An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.

arge cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.