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Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

ithout compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

f certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.

ny process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

alities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer. "cancerous vices" G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

The warp threads of a web. Knight. Chain belt (Mach.), a belt made of a chain; -- used for transmitting power. -- Chain boat, a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc. -- Chain bolt (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chai…

ing the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

ir or water. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues. Melmoth.

igned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

bs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).

s trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

ed also Fig. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in chu…

nce of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by one ampère in one second. Formerly called weber.

a community. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster.

enuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work. Over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web. Spenser.

A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.

of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster.

hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

etection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster.