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A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.

A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.

ural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.

lan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.

A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.] -- Hawse plug (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole. -- Plug and feather. (Stone Working) See Feather, n., 7. -- Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so…

Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.

tice or perform with diligence; to work at. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. Waller.

An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archæologists in two senses:

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

, a poisonous climbing plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) of North America. It is common on stone walls and on the trunks of trees, and has trifoliate, rhombic-ovate, variously notched leaves. Many people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See Poison sumac. Called also poison oak, and mercury. -- Poison nut. (Bot.)…

A bag; a sack; a pocket. "He drew a dial from his poke." Shak. They wallowed as pigs in a poke. Chaucer.

of and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall.

The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.

A brownish red approaching maroon, supposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.

uilding, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple.…

tious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.

To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.

or gate. He by a privy postern took his flight. Spenser. Out at the postern, by the abbey wall. Shak.