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r to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott.

; to terminate friendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. -- Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the nose. -- Cantalev…

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

ving rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to…

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. Abney.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.

ldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]…

The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with.

A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]

aying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a lar…

A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.