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In; on; at; by. [Obs.] "A God's name." "Torn a pieces." "Stand a tiptoe." "A Sundays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

ite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends.

A movement or piece in andante time.

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. [Obs.]

ss an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle l…

A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.