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The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

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 special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

uare of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

n instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

d in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

h great importance to a particular circumstance. Top this treasure a curse is attached. Bayard Taylor.

To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. Shak. The chalk cliffs which back the beach. Huxley.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.