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That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. The north western shoulder of the mountain. Sir W. Scott.

A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

us). -- Singing flame (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also chemical harmonicon. -- Singing master, a man who teaches vocal music. -- Singing school, a school in which persons…

A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe…

pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonal stomach (Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.

A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.

One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

n barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.

. It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.

A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

To kiss closely. [Obs.] P. Stubbes.

branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. Dryden.

f a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris (Bot.), an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble a serpent's open mouth.

A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.

A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser.