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A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

osed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

Any strange sight. Wright.

e keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

An ornament [Obs.] L'Estrange.

its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion. -- Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n. -- Gear cutter, a ma…

her. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.

ree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

dual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.

nus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. [Obs.] Hanmer.

One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.] A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.

A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).