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by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy. Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, No greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

ess with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.

A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.

A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Wolfram, an ore of tungsten. Simmonds.

liar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Grology.

to the Frensc standard; the amount of heat requires to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0Foot pound.

ferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

ately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. -- Panoramic, or Pantascopic, camera, a photographic camera in which the lens and sensitized plate revolve so as to expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in…

iod, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

ns of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

ally, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour. -- To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell.

Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay.

A piece of wood laid upon athe deck of a vessel to support the bulkneads. Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.

musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.

gure with its fore part like a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.