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The air or tune of a musical piece.

ss; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects.

A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. Bacon.

A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.

A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.

The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed. [Obs.]

rd for propriety in speech or action. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. Shak. Modesty piece, a narrow piece of lace worn by women over the bosom. [Obs.] Addison.

t, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudde…

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp up…

A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber.

Made of one piece of wood.

An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile. [R.] See Stile.