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A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]

g around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket. [Sometimes spelt Capstern, but improperly.] Capstan bar, one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike.. -- To pawl the capstan, to drop the pawls so that they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prev…

ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife. [Spelt also catlin.] Crobb.

lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters. [Spelt also seriph.] Savage.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

ick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]

To pelt with clods. Jonson.

he face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.…

d forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

Devil; -- spelt also deel. [Scot.] Deil's buckie. See under Buckie.

t in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. [Frequently, but improperly, spelt diocess.]

ular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

One of the testicles of a hart or stag. [Spelt also doucet.] B. Jonson.

The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum).

or measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump. [Spelt also elaterometer.]