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lding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.

The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.

nagement of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown. [Eng.] -- Treasury lo…

A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. Brande & C.

d as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth. Brande & C.

A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.

A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two open…

A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. Shak.

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

Unknown. [Obs.] "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser.

being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.

A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices. Brande & C.

igerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. A certain man drew a bow at a venture. 1 Kings xxii. 34. A bargain at a venture made. Hudibras.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebræ, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone,…

To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.