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The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. Pneumatic caisson (Engin.), a caisson, closed at the top but open at the bottom, and resting upon the ground under water. The pressure of air forced into the caisson keeps the water out. Men and materials are admitted to the interior through an air lock. See Lock.…

th or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

en the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of t…

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

de. Knight. To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese. Holmes.

considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt.

A panegyrical funeral oration.

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

One who praises; a panegyrist. Locke.

A panegyric. B. Jonson.

Encomium; panegyric. [Obs.] B. Jonson.