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A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

A breech-loading rifle formerly used in the British service; -- so called from the inventor.

ith a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]. Spencer mast, a small mast just abaft the foremast or mainmast, for hoisting the spencer. R. H. Dana, Jr.

m of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.

to keep its stock clear of the ship's sides. Totten. -- Stock taking, an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; -- usually made periodically. -- Tail stock. See Tailstock. -- To have something on the stock, to be at work at something. -- To take stock, to take account of stock; to…

The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

orting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

e of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.

e, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp; -- so called after the inventor.

A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.