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A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

y paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -- Chimney swallow. (Zoöl.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). -- Chimn…

A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.

substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or depa…

to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material…

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.

of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.

A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

with tines springing from the rim. -- Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace. -- Crown glass. See under Glass. -- Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] "She pawned and set to s…

A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.