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about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

A doorpost. [Obs.] "As dead as a doretree." Piers Plowman.

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

e of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used in dovetail…

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

A race Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.

To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.

he sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.