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. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

A kind of triangular lyre or harp.

r inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (Harpullia pendula). J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. " Tune your harps." Dryden.

Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.

A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq. U. S.]

A sharp steel spear attached to a cord, used in taking sea turtles. -- Turtle pegging.

To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. Addison.

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose. Swift.

To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange.

Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky. Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day. J. R. Drake.

The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.

Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.

To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow.

genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood…

ry motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string. As a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow.

To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp. [Obs.] Hoping that he hath vinegared his senses As he was bid. B. Jonson.

(Chauliodus Sloanii). It has long ventral and dorsal fins, a large mouth, and very long, sharp teeth. -- Viper's bugloss (Bot.), a rough-leaved biennial herb (Echium vulgare) having showy purplish blue flowers. It is sometimes cultivated, but has become a pestilent weed in fields from New York to Virginia. Also called…

t; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve. The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray. Milton.