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Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.

Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

Having transverse bands of color.

The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.

An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.

Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

Scraping; that which is scraped off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

Strigose. [R.]

. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

aracterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

r attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise. The hearts of all that he did angle for. Shak.

crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A book containing the principles of this science. Arithmetic of sines, trigonometry. -- Political arithmetic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.