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Space left by the removal of ore.

face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one o…

consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]

The permanent court of arbitration created by the "International Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an…

rtially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.

Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.

The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper. Hanaper office, an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

asily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.

itrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. -- Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two s…

One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith.

One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidæ. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons.…