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Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera. Beetle mite (Zoöl.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles. -- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis…

The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment. [Scot.]

A substance of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

d cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

Of the color of buff. Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. -- Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a…

satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Addison.

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt.

An outer or external angle.

A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers wh…

as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.

A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird,…

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.