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The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch. Wilhelm.

or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct from religious motives; in a word, there can be no religion. Paley. Religion [was] not, as too often now, used as equivalent for godliness; but . . . it expressed the outer form and embodiment which the…

That which repairs. Sir H. Wotton.

A representative. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.

That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. -- Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. -- Residual root (Alg.), the root of a re…

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.

ed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.

A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.

Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. Sir H. Wotton.

To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor…

become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

r sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.

orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

r in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.] -- Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber. -- Roller mill. See under Mill. -- Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating upon…

Space; place; room. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.