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One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.

sible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

To exceed or surpass in bidding. Prevent the greedy, and outbid the bold. Pope.

A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

rmerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence. [R.]

rected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. [France] Knight.

past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.

difications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil. Hutcheson. The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness f…

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140º F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

struck by the clapper. Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.

her part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [Written also paul, or pall.] Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- P…

The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon. So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period. Milton. Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period. Jer. Taylor. This is the perio…

resign; to leave; to commit. Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things. Addison.

One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love. Tatler.

n appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]